The History of the Gulag : From Collectivization to the Great Terror / Ronald Radosh, Grigory Sevostianov, Mary Habeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khlevni︠u︡k, O. V. (Oleg Vitalʹevich)

Contributor:

Habeck, Mary, Editor.

Radosh, Ronald, Editor.

Sevostianov, Grigory, Editor.

Series:

Annals of Communism.

Annals of Communism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internment camps--Soviet Union--History.

Internment camps.

Forced labor--Soviet Union--History.

Forced labor.

Political prisoners--Soviet Union.

Political prisoners.

Prisons--Soviet Union--History.

Prisons.

Soviet Union--Politics and government.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a thorough historical study of this unique and tragic episode in Soviet history. This groundbreaking book presents the first comprehensive, historically accurate account of the camp system. Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk has mined the contents of extensive archives, including long-suppressed state and Communist Party documents, to uncover the secrets of the Gulag and how it became a central component of Soviet ideology and social policy.Khlevniuk argues persuasively that the Stalinist penal camps created in the 1930s were essentially different from previous camps. He shows that political motivations and paranoia about potential enemies contributed no more to the expansion of the Gulag than the economic incentive of slave labor did. And he offers powerful evidence that the Great Terror was planned centrally and targeted against particular categories of the population. Khlevniuk makes a signal contribution to Soviet history with this exceptionally informed and balanced view of the Gulag.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List Of Abbreviations

Map Of Gulag Sites, 1929-1941

Introduction

Chapter 1. Origins Of The Stalinist Gulag

Chapter 2. Famine

Chapter 3. Stabilization Of The System

Chapter 4. The Great Terror

Chapter 5. Beria's "Reforms"

Chapter 6. Mobilization And Repression

Chapter 7. The Victims

Conclusion: The Price Of Terror

Brief Biographies

List Of Selected Camps And Projects Of The OGPU-NKVD

Excerpts From The Criminal Codes Of The RSFSR And The Constitution Of The USSR

Notes

Index Of Documents

General Index

Books In The Annals Of Communism Series

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

ISBN:

9780300160642

030016064X

OCLC:

1024019034