The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction

by Alan Barenberg

A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard prison system with the goal of isolating and punishing alleged enemies of the Soviet regime. it stretched throughout the Soviet Union, from central Moscow to the farthest reaches of Siberia. From its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197548229
• ISBN13: 9780197548226
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.4" x 6.5"