Gulag Town, Company Town : Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta / Alan Barenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barenberg, Alan, Author.

Series:

Yale-Hoover series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War.

The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp)--History.

Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp).

Forced labor--Soviet Union--History.

Forced labor.

Labor camps--Soviet Union--History.

Labor camps.

Prisons--Soviet Union--History.

Prisons.

Coal mines and mining--Soviet Union--History.

Coal mines and mining.

Vorkuta (Komi, Russia)--History.

Vorkuta (Komi, Russia).

Vorkuta (Komi, Russia)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white).

Other Title:

Forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Gulag Town, Company Town' examines the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost that was built in the 1930s as one of the most notorious prison camp complexes in the Soviet Union. But Vorkuta was not just a camp; it was also a Soviet city, with a substantial non-prisoner population and urban spaces. This book questions the idea that the Gulag was an 'archipelago' separated from Soviet society at large. Instead, it examines camp and city together, looking at the interrelationships between them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations and Glossary

Map

Introduction

1. From the Margins to the Home Front: Vorkuta as an Outpost

2. Saving Leningrad, Defining Vorkuta: A Camp and City at War

3. In Search of "Normalcy": Vorkuta During Postwar Stalinism

4. Vorkuta in Crisis: Reform and Its Consequences

5. The "Second Birth" of Vorkuta: Forging the Company Town

6. From Prisoners to Citizens? Ex-Prisoners and the Transformation of Vorkuta

Epilogue

Appendix A: Prisoner Data Set

Appendix B: Non-Prisoner Data Set

Appendix C: Production Data Set

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300206821

0300206828

OCLC:

885331730