Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System : The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System

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

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0765604264

ISBN-13 9780765604262

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 28th, 2000

Print length 234 Pages

Weight 498 grams

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An historical study of the Soviet labour camp movement based on recently declassified archives. The book examines the operations of the camp system both from within - who staffed it and how it worked - and as an integral part of Soviet totalitarianism.

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.

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