Format:
xv, 331 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780300179446
Series Statement:
The Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Content:
"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 insightful study tests the idea that the Gulag was an 'archipelago' separated from Soviet society at large"--Cover
Note:
Literaturangaben und Register
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Introduction -- From the margins to the home front: Vorkuta as an outpost -- Saving Leningrad, defining Vorkuta: a camp and a city at war -- In search of "normalcy": Vorkuta during postwar Stalinism -- Vorkuta in crisis: reform and its consequences -- The "second birth" of Vorkuta: forging the company town -- From prisoners to citizens? Ex-prisoners and the transformation of Vorkuta -- Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Barenberg, Alan Gulag town, company town New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014 ISBN 0300206828
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300206821
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Workuta
;
Straflager
;
Geschichte
;
Workuta
;
GULAG
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Geschichte 1930-2010
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43764
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