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Full Title

Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System 1st Edition

Author(s)

Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova, Donald J. Raleigh, Galina Mikhailovna, Carol A. Flath

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781317466635, 9780765604279, 9780765604262, 9781315703039, 9780765639400, 9781317466628, 9781317466642

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This is the first historical survey of the Gulag based on newly accessible archival sources as well as memoirs and other studies published since the beginning of glasnost.Over the course of several decades, the Soviet labor camp system drew into its orbit tens of millions of people — political prisoners and their families, common criminals, prisoners of war, internal exiles, local officials, and prison camp personnel. This study sheds new light on the operation of the camp system, both internally and as an integral part of a totalitarian regime that “institutionalized violence as a universal means of attaining its goals”. In Galina Ivanova’s unflinching account — all the more powerful for its austerity — the Gulag is the ultimate manifestation of a more pervasive and lasting distortion of the values of legality, labor, and life that burdens Russia to the present day.