The origins, functions, and institutions of the Gulag. - Reclaiming the margins and the marginal: Gulag practices in Karaganda, 1930s. - Categorizing prisoners: the identities of the Gulag. - Armageddon and the Gulag, 1939-1945. - A new circle of hell: the postwar Gulag and the rise of the special camps. - The crash of the Gulag: releases and uprisings in the Post-Stalin era.