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Hardcover Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta Book

ISBN: 0300179448

ISBN13: 9780300179446

Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

(Part of the Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes Series)

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This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg's eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish social...

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