Gulag Town, Company Town
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Gulag Town, Company Town

Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gulag Town, Company Town

Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. List of Abbreviations and Glossary
  4. Map
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. From the Margins to the Home Front: Vorkuta as an Outpost
  7. 2. Saving Leningrad, Defining Vorkuta: A Camp and City at War
  8. 3. In Search of “Normalcy”: Vorkuta During Postwar Stalinism
  9. 4. Vorkuta in Crisis: Reform and Its Consequences
  10. 5. The “Second Birth” of Vorkuta: Forging the Company Town
  11. 6. From Prisoners to Citizens? Ex-Prisoners and the Transformation of Vorkuta
  12. Epilogue
  13. Appendix A: Prisoner Data Set
  14. Appendix B: Non-Prisoner Data Set
  15. Appendix C: Production Data Set
  16. Notes
  17. Index