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Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Steven A. Barnes
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Description for Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Paperback. Offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag - the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons - in Soviet society. This book argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBLW; JKVP; JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to ... Read more
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691151120
SKU
V9780691151120
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About Steven A. Barnes
Steven A. Barnes is associate professor of history and director of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Mason University.
Reviews for Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Winner of the 2013 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 2011 Baker-Burton Award, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association Shortlisted for the 2013 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award "Death and Redemption is a well-written and provocatively argued book that all serious students of Soviet history will need to read and contemplate. Drawing from ... Read more