Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag

by Golfo Alexopoulos

A 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300179413
• ISBN13: 9780300179415
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"