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Book The Economics of Forced Labor

Download or read book The Economics of Forced Labor written by Paul R. Gregory and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies.

Book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gulag at War

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  • Author : Edwin Bacon
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1994-09-27
  • ISBN : 1349142751
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book The Gulag at War written by Edwin Bacon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-09-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulag at War reveals for the first time official documents kept in the archives of the Soviet forced labour system. An assessment of previous western and Russian studies of the Gulag is followed by a description of its origins. The bulk of the book then concentrates on the labour camps during the Second World War years. New information is revealed regarding prisoner numbers, living conditions, the organisation of forced labour, economic production, and rebellion in the camps.

Book Forced Labor in Soviet Russia

Download or read book Forced Labor in Soviet Russia written by David J. Dallin and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1974 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union   With Illustrations

Download or read book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union With Illustrations written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Origins Of The Gulag

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  • Author : Michael Jakobson
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-07-15
  • ISBN : 081316138X
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Origins Of The Gulag written by Michael Jakobson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to October 1934, when all places of confinement were consolidated under one agency -- the infamous GULAG. The prison camps served the Soviet government in many ways: to isolate opponents and frighten the population into submission, to increase labor productivity through the arrest of "inefficient" workers, and to provide labor for factories, mines, lumbering, and construction projects. Jakobson focuses on the structure and interrelations of prison agencies, the Bolshevik views of crime and punishment and inmate reeducation, and prison self-sufficiency. He also describes how political conditions and competition among prison agencies contributed to an unprecedented expansion of the system. Finally, he disputes the official claim of 1931 that the system was profitable -- a claim long accepted by former inmates and Western researchers and used to explain the proliferation of the camps and their population. Did Marxism or the Bolshevik Revolution or Leninism inexorably lead to the GULAG system? Were its origins truly evil or merely banal? Jakobson's important book probes the official record to cast new light on a system that for a time supported but ultimately helped destroy the now fallen Soviet colossus.

Book Gulag Town  Company Town

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  • Author : Alan Barenberg
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-26
  • ISBN : 0300179448
  • Pages : 348 pages

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.

Book The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention

Download or read book The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention written by Anton Weiss-Wendt and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How both the Soviet Union and the United States manipulated and weakened the drafting of the United Nations Genocide Convention treaty in the midst of the Cold War.

Book Death and Redemption

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  • Author : Steven A. Barnes
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-04
  • ISBN : 1400838614
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Death and Redemption written by Steven A. Barnes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist society. He takes readers into the Gulag itself, focusing on one outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, a location that featured the full panoply of Soviet detention institutions. Barnes traces the Gulag experience from its beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline following the 1953 death of Stalin. Death and Redemption reveals how the Gulag defined the border between those who would reenter Soviet society and those who would be excluded through death.

Book Against Their Will

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  • Author : P. M. Poli?an
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789639241688
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Against Their Will written by P. M. Poli?an and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During his reign, Joseph Stalin oversaw the forced resettlement of people by the millions - a maniacal passion that he used for social engineering. Six million people were resettled before Stalin's death. This volume is the first attempt to comprehensively examine the history of forced and semi-voluntary population movements within or organized by the Soviet Union. Contents range from the early 1920s to the rehabilitation of repressed nationalities in the 1990s, dealing with internal (kulaks, ethnic and political deportations) and international forced migrations (German internees and occupied territories)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book A Compendium on the Development of Forced Labor in the Soviet Union  1917 1939

Download or read book A Compendium on the Development of Forced Labor in the Soviet Union 1917 1939 written by John Callaway Kindschi and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union written by Nancy Mosshammer and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stalin s Genocides

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  • Author : Norman M. Naimark
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-19
  • ISBN : 1400836069
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Stalin s Genocides written by Norman M. Naimark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.

Book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Forced Labor in the Soviet Union written by United States. Department of State. Office of International Information and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: