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Rethinking the Gulag
2022
Overview
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.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780253059628, 0253059623, 9780253059611, 0253059615, 9780253059598, 0253059607, 0253059593, 9780253059604
