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Gulag : a history Anne Applebaum. electronic resource

By: Applebaum, Anne | ebrary, IncMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York Anchor Books 2004Edition: 1st Anchor Books edDescription: xl, 677 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Prisons - Soviet Union - History | Soviet Union - Politics and government | Concentration camps - Soviet Union - History | Forced labour - Soviet Union - HistoryDDC classification: 365/.45/094709041 Online access: Open e-book (Ruskin students only)
Contents:
Part one : The Origins of the Gulag, 1917-1939 -- Bolshevik beginnings -- The First camp of the Gulag -- 1929, the great turning point -- The White Sea canal -- The Camps expand -- The Great terror, and its aftermath -- Part two : Life and work in the camps -- Arrest -- Prison -- Transport, arrival, selection -- t Life in the camps -- Work in the camps -- Punishment and reward -- The Guards -- The Prisoners -- Women and children -- The Dying -- Strategies of survival -- Rebellion and escape -- Part three : The Rise and fall of the camp-industrial complex, 1940-1986 -- The War begins -- Strangers -- Amnesty-and afterward -- The Zenith of the camp-industrial comples -- The Death of Stalin -- The Zeks' revolution -- Thaw - and release -- The Era of the dissidents -- The 1980s : smashing statues -- Epilogue : Memory -- Appendix : How many?
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Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c2003. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Part one : The Origins of the Gulag, 1917-1939 -- Bolshevik beginnings -- The First camp of the Gulag -- 1929, the great turning point -- The White Sea canal -- The Camps expand -- The Great terror, and its aftermath -- Part two : Life and work in the camps -- Arrest -- Prison -- Transport, arrival, selection -- t Life in the camps -- Work in the camps -- Punishment and reward -- The Guards -- The Prisoners -- Women and children -- The Dying -- Strategies of survival -- Rebellion and escape -- Part three : The Rise and fall of the camp-industrial complex, 1940-1986 -- The War begins -- Strangers -- Amnesty-and afterward -- The Zenith of the camp-industrial comples -- The Death of Stalin -- The Zeks' revolution -- Thaw - and release -- The Era of the dissidents -- The 1980s : smashing statues -- Epilogue : Memory -- Appendix : How many?

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