1st Edition
Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s
By Zhanna Popova
Copyright 2024
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based investigations, we now understand the scope of the system, variations between different camp complexes, and modalities of the use of forced labour of convicts. At the same time, the work of historicizing the Gulag and systematically evaluating its position within the global history... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1. A Threatening Geography: Shifting Usages of Forced Displacement and Convict Labour, 1879–1905, Chapter 2. Under Pressure: Revolution, Repression, and War in the Russian Empire, 1905–1917, Chapter 3. Blueprints for the Gulag? The Advance of Mass Internment, 1914–1923, Chapter 4. Revolutionary Utopias and Dystopias: Violence and the Making of the Soviet Man, 1923–1929, Chapter 5. Special Settlements and the Making of the Gulag, 1929–1934, Epilogue. Paroxysms of Violence, 1937–1953.
Biography
Zhanna Popova is a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include labour history, social history of Eastern Europe and Russia, and history of migration, with a particular interest towards the conditions and struggles of marginalized workers.
