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Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

Barenberg, Alan

Hardcover

Series: Yale-Hoover Authoritarian Regimes

Baltic HistoryGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0300179448
ISBN13: 9780300179446
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Aug 26 2014
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.45 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous Gulag Archipelago by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg's eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish social connections that would eventually aid them in their transitions to civilian life. With this book, Barenberg makes an important historical contribution to our understanding of forced labor in the Soviet Union and its enduring legacy.

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