Record details

• ISBN: 1400034094
• ISBN: 9781400034093
• Physical Description: xl, 677 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st Anchor Books edition
• Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2004.
• Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c2003.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one: The Origins of the Gulag, 1917-1939 -- Bolshevik beginnings -- The First camp of the Gulag -- 1929, the great turning point -- The White Sea canal -- The Camps expand -- The Great terror, and its aftermath -- Part two: Life and work in the camps -- Arrest -- Prison -- Transport, arrival, selection -- t Life in the camps -- Work in the camps -- Punishment and reward -- The Guards -- The Prisoners -- Women and children -- The Dying -- Strategies of survival -- Rebellion and escape -- Part three: The Rise and fall of the camp-industrial complex, 1940-1986 -- The War begins -- Strangers -- Amnesty-and afterward -- The Zenith of the camp-industrial comples -- The Death of Stalin -- The Zeks' revolution -- Thaw - and release -- The Era of the dissidents -- The 1980s: smashing statues -- Epilogue: Memory -- Appendix: How many?

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Internment camps > History.
Forced labor > Soviet Union > History.
Prisons > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Politics and government.