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

by Alan Barenberg

Book Overview

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 nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300179448
• ISBN13: 9780300179446
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"