Gulag Town, Company Town
Author | : Alan Barenberg |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780300179446 |
ISBN-13 | : 0300179448 |
Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Download or read book Gulag Town, Company Town written by Alan Barenberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.