Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's GulagA 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, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. |
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Contents
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Unloading the Ballast | 133 |
We Are Not Doctors but Delousers | 160 |
The More and Less Valuable Human Element | 183 |
Labor Utilization | 208 |
Deaths and Deceptions | 232 |
Notes | 249 |
Index | 301 |
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| Title | Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes |
| Author | Golfo Alexopoulos |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2017 |
| ISBN | 0300227531, 9780300227536 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Modern / 20th Century History / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Social Science / Penology |
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