Gulag town, company town : forced labor and its legacy in Vorkuta

Summary: "The notorious Soviet Gulag gets a radical reinterpretation in this remarkable work of cutting-edge history. By examining the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex, Alan Barenberg's insightful study tests the idea that the Gulag was an 'archipelago' separated from Soviet society at large"--Cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0300206828
ISBN: 9780300206821
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
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Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- From the margins to the home front: Vorkuta as an outpost -- Saving Leningrad, defining Vorkuta: a camp and a city at war -- In search of "normalcy": Vorkuta during postwar Stalinism -- Vorkuta in crisis: reform and its consequences -- The "second birth" of Vorkuta: forging the company town -- From prisoners to citizens? Ex-prisoners and the transformation of Vorkuta -- Epilogue.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	Text in English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.