The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
by
Steven A. Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but...