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From Gulag town to monotown. Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

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From Gulag town to monotown. Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
19.99 €
Alan Barenberg's study centers on the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost that originally emerged in the 1930s as a complex of Gulag camps where hundreds of thousands of prisoners struggled daily to survive. Since the late 1950s, it has become a rapidly developing industrial city in the tundra, a showcase of Soviet achievements in the development of the Far North. The author shows that between these two stages of Vorkuta's development, despite all the political and economic changes, there is a certain similarity and continuity: the people, institutions, and practices that made up this social space bore the imprint of camp life. The camps and special settlements were not islands separated from the mainland of Soviet society, and former prisoners retained the social ties they had acquired in prison and used them in freedom. Despite the discriminatory policies of the Soviet authorities, released prisoners were able to reintegrate relatively successfully into a society in need of manpower during the process of de-Stalinization and postwar economic recovery. Alan Barenberg is a historian and professor at Texas Tech University.
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