General Information

Language

English.

Published

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2022.

Physical Description

310 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Barenberg, Alan, (editor.)

Johnson, Emily D., 1966- (editor.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union's ethnicities, professions, and social classes? Drawing on a massive body of documentary evidence, Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies explores the Soviet penal system from various disciplinary perspectives. Divided into three sections, the collection first considers "identities"-the lived experiences of contingents of detainees who have rarely figured in Gulag histories to date, such as common criminals and clerics. The second section, "sources," explores the ways new research methods can revolutionize our understanding of the system. The third section, "legacies," reveals the aftermath of the Gulag, including the folk beliefs and traditions it has inspired and the museums built to memorialize it. While all the chapters respond to one another, each section also concludes with a reaction by a leading researcher: geographer Judith Pallot, historian Lynne Viola, and literary scholar Alexander Etkind. Moving away from grand metaphorical or theoretical models, Rethinking the Gulag instead unearths the complexities and nuances of experience that represent a primary focus in the new wave of Gulag studies"--

Subjects

Subject

Labor camps > Soviet Union > History.

Forced labor > Soviet Union > History.

Prisons > Soviet Union > History.

Prisoners > Soviet Union > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Alan Barenberg and Emily D. Johnson.

ISBN

9780253059628

9780253059611

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	940.54/050947 BAR		Reference	-

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