Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor And Its Legacy In Vorkuta (Yale-Hoover Series On Authoritarian Regimes)

The notorious Soviet Gulag gets a radical reinterpretation in this remarkable work of cutting-edge history. By examining the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex, Alan Barenberg's insightfulstudy tests the idea that the Gulag was an 'archipelago' separated from Soviet society at large--Cover.

• | Author: Alan Barenberg
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 26, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0300179448
• | ISBN-13: 9780300179446