10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GULAG»
Discover the use of
gulag in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gulag and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Polish literature.
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in ...
Evaluates the economic and political forces--from global to local--that have contributed to the buildup of inmates in the California correctional system, revealing why this state has led the way in a prison boom despite a crime rate that ...
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 2007
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Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.
The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyn’s own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the ...
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Thomas P. Whitney, H. T. Willetts, 1997
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The unknown gulag: the lost world of Stalin's special ...
One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag.
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The Bamboo Gulag: Political Imprisonment in Communist Vietnam
This comprehensive review of the gulag system instituted in communist Vietnam explores the three-pronged approach that was used to convert the rebellious South into a full-fledged communist country after 1975.
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The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System
This book is the first to examine at length and in-depth the post-camp experience of Stalin's victims and their fate in post-Soviet Russia. As such, it is an essential companion to the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir
In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle.
Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, 2011
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Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
"This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] should start a debate about modern literature with a rich potential for further development." —Michael Scammell Return from the Archipelago is the first ...
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Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the ...
In Khrushchev's Cold Summer, Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror.
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The economics of forced labor: the Soviet Gulag
We also learn of the day-to-day costs of maintaining the Gulag and the great costs of coercion - lost productivity and rising criminality."--BOOK JACKET.
Paul R Gregory, V. Valerii Vasil'evich Lazarev, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GULAG»
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gulag is used in the context of the following news items.
Hungary commemorating 700000 victims of the Soviet Union's …
Schmidt says the Gulag memorial year called attention to "the fact that the suffering of the Hungarian people did not end with the end of World War II.". «Fox News, May 15»
Red Army veteran's war years end in Gulag
He rejoined the Soviet army but just as he hoped to be demobilised in 1948, Netto found himself heading for a Gulag camp in Norilsk in the far north, sentenced ... «Yahoo News, May 15»
Supreme Court throws out rehabilitation appeal for Gulag founder …
He is most known for founding the Main Directorate for Camps and Detention Facilities, better known as the Gulag. Yagoda also played a major role in several ... «RT, Apr 15»
Stalin wiped from Soviet Gulag prison museum
... with Perm officials. Millions of Soviet citizens were sent to labour camps in the notorious Gulag system, or shot, during Joseph Stalin's hardline communist rule. «BBC News, Mar 15»
Russia's Sakha Republic proposes 'tourist camps' on former gulag …
Minister Yekaterina Kormilitsyna said: "Today the gulag has every chance of attracting tourists. This project will preserve the historical heritage not only of the ... «The Guardian, Mar 14»
North Korean gulags 'expanding', satellite images show
North Korea's largest gulag appears to be expanding its population, according to satellite images released by Amnesty International. An Amnesty report included ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 13»
Life in Stalin's Gulags
Today, the Gulag is long gone and there are only a handful of people like Krikun who witnessed the height of the Soviet repressions. And yet more than half a ... «The Atlantic, Mar 13»
Notorious Russian gulag gets 75th anniversary party
MOSCOW Millions of people died in Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's gulag, but the 75th anniversary of the founding of one of the notorious forced-labor camps was ... «CBS News, Feb 13»
Satellite images show gulags still operational in North Korea
Media reports in South Korea had suggested that the camp, officially known as Penal Labour Colony 22, had been abandoned and the inmates dispersed to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 12»
North Korea's 'hidden gulag'
The gulag is a network of labor camps that houses 150,000 to 200,000 prisoners. They are generally arrested for no crime, sent away with no trial, never again ... «Washington Post, Apr 12»
