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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300179413

ISBN-139780300179415

eBay Product ID (ePID)227736737

Product Key Features

Number of Pages328 Pages

Publication NameIllness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / 20th Century, Penology

TypeTextbook

AuthorGolfo Alexopoulos

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

SeriesYale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight22.1 Oz

Item Length1 in

Item Width0.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2016-951586

Reviews"This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book's findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed."--Oleg Khlevniuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator "A well-researched, clearly written book providing a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Soviet system of forced labor camps and colonies."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta, "A well-researched, clearly written book providing a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Soviet system of forced labor camps and colonies."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta, "Alexopoulos's study of the Gulag medical system provides a wealth of new data based on meticulous archival research that should bring a significant change in scholars' understanding of the Soviet calculus of punishment, productivity, and the value of human life."-- Choice "This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book's findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed."--Oleg Khlevniuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator "A well-researched, clearly written book providing a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Soviet system of forced labor camps and colonies."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta, "Alexopoulos's study of the Gulag medical system provides a wealth of new data based on meticulous archival research that should bring a significant change in scholars' understanding of the Soviet calculus of punishment, productivity, and the value of human life."-- Choice "A significant scholarly contribution, an invitation for further discussion among scholars of the gulag and, for non-specialists, a very useful entrée into recent literature."--Daniel P. Todes, Russian Review "This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book's findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed."--Oleg Khlevniuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator "A well-researched, clearly written book providing a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Soviet system of forced labor camps and colonies."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta, "Alexopoulos's study of the Gulag medical system provides a wealth of new data based on meticulous archival research that should bring a significant change in scholars' understanding of the Soviet calculus of punishment, productivity, and the value of human life."-- Choice "A significant scholarly contribution, an invitation for further discussion among scholars of the gulag and, for non-specialists, a very useful entre into recent literature."--Daniel P. Todes, Russian Review "This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book's findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed."--Oleg Khlevniuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator "A well-researched, clearly written book providing a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Soviet system of forced labor camps and colonies."--Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta, "This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book's findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed."--Oleg Khlevniuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal940.5

SynopsisA new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror., A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror

LC Classification NumberDK268.4