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Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin´s Gulag
Golfo Alexopoulos
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Description for Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin´s Gulag
Hardback. A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror Series: The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; JKVP; JPFC; JPHX; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. .
A 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.
A 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300179415
SKU
V9780300179415
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About Golfo Alexopoulos
Golfo Alexopoulos is professor of history at the University of South Florida and author of Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926-1936. She lives in Saint Petersburg, FL.
Reviews for Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin´s Gulag
This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book's findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed. -Oleg ... Read more