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Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
Alan Barenberg
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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 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.
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Cover
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Series Page
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Epigraph
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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List of Abbreviations and Glossary
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Map
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Introduction
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1. From the Margins to the Home Front: Vorkuta as an Outpost
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2. Saving Leningrad, Defining Vorkuta: A Camp and City at War
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3. In Search of “Normalcy”: Vorkuta during Postwar Stalinism
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4. Vorkuta in Crisis: Reform and Its Consequences
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5. The “Second Birth” of Vorkuta: Forging the Company Town
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6. From Prisoners to Citizens? Ex-prisoners and the Transformation of Vorkuta
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Epilogue
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Appendix A: Prisoner Data Set
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Appendix B: Non-Prisoner Data Set
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Appendix C: Production Data Set
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Notes
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Index
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Published: 2014
Publisher: Yale University Press
- 9780300206821 (ebook)