Skip to main content

Gulag Town, Company Town - Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

By: Yale University Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Yale University Press)


Product Info

Title
Gulag Town, Company Town - Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
Category
Author
Alan Barenberg
Publish Year
2014
Dimensions
6.13x9.25x1.13"
NKG Part #
2148192553
Type
Hardcover

Description

This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial non-prisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish social connections that would eventually aid them in their transitions to civilian life. With this book, Barenberg makes an important historical contribution to our understanding of forced labor in the Soviet Union and its enduring legacy.