Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies - Hardcover

Barenberg, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253059623 ISBN 13: 9780253059628

Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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 surveys sources to explore the ways new research methods can revolutionize our understanding of the system. The third section studies legacies to reveal 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 cultural historian 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.

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Alan Barenberg is the Buena Vista Foundation Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University. He is author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta. Emily D. Johnson is the Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professor of Russian at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie and editor and translator of Gulag Letters by Arsenii Formakov.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253059623
• ISBN 13: 9780253059628
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322
• Herausgeber: Johnson Emily D
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