Steven A. Barnes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691151120
- eISBN:
- 9781400838615
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151120.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This book offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag—the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons—in Soviet society. Soviet authorities ...
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This book offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag—the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons—in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. This book argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed “re-educated” through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who “failed” never got out alive. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, the book shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist society. It takes readers into the Gulag itself, focusing on one outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, a location that featured the full panoply of Soviet detention institutions. The book traces the Gulag experience from its beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline following the 1953 death of Stalin. It reveals how the Gulag defined the border between those who would re-enter Soviet society and those who would be excluded through death.Less
This book offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag—the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons—in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. This book argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed “re-educated” through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who “failed” never got out alive. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, the book shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist society. It takes readers into the Gulag itself, focusing on one outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, a location that featured the full panoply of Soviet detention institutions. The book traces the Gulag experience from its beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline following the 1953 death of Stalin. It reveals how the Gulag defined the border between those who would re-enter Soviet society and those who would be excluded through death.
Golfo Alexopoulos
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300179415
- eISBN:
- 9780300227536
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300179415.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This book is a new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. The book is a shocking study of life and death in Stalin's ...
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This book is a new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. The book is a shocking study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag. It demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, their hunger, and a lack of medical care turned the camps into destructive-labor camps, and suggests that these forced labor camps were often administered as death camps. Examining the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this book draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror.Less
This book is a new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. The book is a shocking study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag. It demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, their hunger, and a lack of medical care turned the camps into destructive-labor camps, and suggests that these forced labor camps were often administered as death camps. Examining the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this book draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror.
Richard I. Cohen (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912628
- eISBN:
- 9780190912659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0018
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism, Religion and Society
This chapter reviews the book Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District (2013), by David Silberklang. Gates of Tears tells the story of the administrative structure of the Lublin district ...
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This chapter reviews the book Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District (2013), by David Silberklang. Gates of Tears tells the story of the administrative structure of the Lublin district in Poland during the Holocaust. It explores forced population movements during the first year of German occupation, forced labor, resettlements and ghettos during 1940 and 1941, deportations, and the forced labor camps after 1942. Silberklang analyzes the interplay of center and periphery within the Nazi Party apparatus in the development of German policy toward the Jews, refracted through the multiple lenses of the civil administration and the security bureaucracy. The book, based on massive archival research, highlights the importance of regional history and local studies for historians of the Holocaust in Poland.Less
This chapter reviews the book Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District (2013), by David Silberklang. Gates of Tears tells the story of the administrative structure of the Lublin district in Poland during the Holocaust. It explores forced population movements during the first year of German occupation, forced labor, resettlements and ghettos during 1940 and 1941, deportations, and the forced labor camps after 1942. Silberklang analyzes the interplay of center and periphery within the Nazi Party apparatus in the development of German policy toward the Jews, refracted through the multiple lenses of the civil administration and the security bureaucracy. The book, based on massive archival research, highlights the importance of regional history and local studies for historians of the Holocaust in Poland.
Gilya Gerda Schmidt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823243297
- eISBN:
- 9780823243334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243297.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The rural areas of southern Germany abound in agricultural businesses, including the cattle and horse trade, and the related fairs at strategic times of the year. The cattle trade was popular among ...
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The rural areas of southern Germany abound in agricultural businesses, including the cattle and horse trade, and the related fairs at strategic times of the year. The cattle trade was popular among Christians and Jews, and until 1933 both conducted their business jointly. By 1937 discrimination against Jews had not only driven a wedge between the two groups, but eliminated Jews from the cattle business and fairs altogether. The Langs’ business permit was revoked in 1938, and during Kristallnacht, Louis and Leopold Lang along with many other Jewish men were arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, where they were held and mistreated for several weeks. Upon their release, Louis was encouraged to sell his property to the municipality of Süssen. The Lang property was aryanized in Spring of 1939, and Louis and Leopold were forced to rent their own home from the municipality until their deportation in 1941. After World War II began, one of the buildings on the Lang property was used as a prisoner-of-war camp for French POWs who were employed in the local economy. Local residents likewise applied to rent parts of the Lang property for various uses even while the family was still living there.Less
The rural areas of southern Germany abound in agricultural businesses, including the cattle and horse trade, and the related fairs at strategic times of the year. The cattle trade was popular among Christians and Jews, and until 1933 both conducted their business jointly. By 1937 discrimination against Jews had not only driven a wedge between the two groups, but eliminated Jews from the cattle business and fairs altogether. The Langs’ business permit was revoked in 1938, and during Kristallnacht, Louis and Leopold Lang along with many other Jewish men were arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, where they were held and mistreated for several weeks. Upon their release, Louis was encouraged to sell his property to the municipality of Süssen. The Lang property was aryanized in Spring of 1939, and Louis and Leopold were forced to rent their own home from the municipality until their deportation in 1941. After World War II began, one of the buildings on the Lang property was used as a prisoner-of-war camp for French POWs who were employed in the local economy. Local residents likewise applied to rent parts of the Lang property for various uses even while the family was still living there.
Gilya Gerda Schmidt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823243297
- eISBN:
- 9780823243334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243297.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Geislingen an der Steige played an important role in the financial life of the Jews of Süssen, since it was the financial center for Süssen. During the Holocaust, the Finanzamt (financial authority) ...
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Geislingen an der Steige played an important role in the financial life of the Jews of Süssen, since it was the financial center for Süssen. During the Holocaust, the Finanzamt (financial authority) confiscated the bank accounts of the Langs, provided the seizure order for the money paid for Louis’ property, and actively participated in auctioning off of the Lang belongings. After 1945, the Finanzamt likewise was responsible for assigning a trustee to the Lang property until the reparations process could be completed. There were only a few marginal Jews living in Geislingen, but the largest business there established a forced labor camp that also included nearly 700 Jewish women sent from Natzweiler concentration camp. Some died during their trials and are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Göppingen.Less
Geislingen an der Steige played an important role in the financial life of the Jews of Süssen, since it was the financial center for Süssen. During the Holocaust, the Finanzamt (financial authority) confiscated the bank accounts of the Langs, provided the seizure order for the money paid for Louis’ property, and actively participated in auctioning off of the Lang belongings. After 1945, the Finanzamt likewise was responsible for assigning a trustee to the Lang property until the reparations process could be completed. There were only a few marginal Jews living in Geislingen, but the largest business there established a forced labor camp that also included nearly 700 Jewish women sent from Natzweiler concentration camp. Some died during their trials and are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Göppingen.
Lillian Guerra
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835630
- eISBN:
- 9781469601519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837368_guerra.12
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter discusses Cuba's persecution of homosexuality. It focuses on the Cuban government's implementation of a program that detained thousands of homosexuals for up to three years without ...
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This chapter discusses Cuba's persecution of homosexuality. It focuses on the Cuban government's implementation of a program that detained thousands of homosexuals for up to three years without charge in a network of forced labor camps called Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción (Military Units of Assistance to Production, or UMAP).Less
This chapter discusses Cuba's persecution of homosexuality. It focuses on the Cuban government's implementation of a program that detained thousands of homosexuals for up to three years without charge in a network of forced labor camps called Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción (Military Units of Assistance to Production, or UMAP).
