Forced Labor In The Soviet Union
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Author |
: Paul R. Gregory |
Publisher |
: Hoover Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2013-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780817939434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0817939431 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Economics of Forced Labor by : Paul R. Gregory
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.
Author |
: Anton Weiss-Wendt |
Publisher |
: University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2017-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299312909 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299312909 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention by : Anton Weiss-Wendt
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.
Author |
: Michael Jakobson |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2014-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813161389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081316138X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Origins Of The Gulag by : Michael Jakobson
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.
Author |
: Eliyana R. Adler |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2020-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674988026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674988027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Survival on the Margins by : Eliyana R. Adler
The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR. Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their coreligionists in the Holocaust. Survival on the Margins is the first comprehensive account in English of their experiences. The refugees fled Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and settled in the Soviet territories newly annexed under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Facing hardship, and trusting little in Stalin, most spurned the offer of Soviet citizenship and were deported to labor camps in unoccupied areas of the east. They were on their own, in a forbidding wilderness thousands of miles from home. But they inadvertently escaped Hitler’s 1941 advance into the Soviet Union. While war raged and Europe’s Jews faced genocide, the refugees were permitted to leave their settlements after the Soviet government agreed to an amnesty. Most spent the remainder of the war coping with hunger and disease in Soviet Central Asia. When they were finally allowed to return to Poland in 1946, they encountered the devastation of the Holocaust, and many stopped talking about their own ordeals, their stories eventually subsumed within the central Holocaust narrative. Drawing on untapped memoirs and testimonies of the survivors, Eliyana Adler rescues these important stories of determination and suffering on behalf of new generations.
Author |
: Steven A. Barnes |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2011-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400838615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400838614 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death and Redemption by : Steven A. Barnes
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.
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) |
Synopsis Gulag Town, Company Town by : Alan Barenberg
"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.
Author |
: Alexander von Plato |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 567 |
Release |
: 2010-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845459901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845459903 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hitler's Slaves by : Alexander von Plato
During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working for private companies and public agencies in industry, administration and agriculture. In addition, there were 4.6 million prisoners of war and 1.7 million concentration camp prisoners who were either subjected to forced labour in concentration or similar camps or were ‘rented out’ or sold by the SS. While there are numerous publications on forced labour in National Socialist Germany during World War II, this publication combines a historical account of events with the biographies and memories of former forced labourers from twenty-seven countries, offering a comparative international perspective.
Author |
: Paul R. Gregory |
Publisher |
: Hoover Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2013-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780817915766 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0817915761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women of the Gulag by : Paul R. Gregory
During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century.
Author |
: Norman M. Naimark |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2010-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400836062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400836069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stalin's Genocides by : Norman M. Naimark
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.
Author |
: Oksana Kis |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 653 |
Release |
: 2021-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674258280 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674258282 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Survival as Victory by : Oksana Kis
Survival as Victory is the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Oksana Kis pulls from the written and oral histories of over 150 survivors to bring to life the gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.