Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag

Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780300227536
ISBN-13 : 0300227531
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Book Synopsis Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag by : Golfo Alexopoulos

Download or read book Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag written by Golfo Alexopoulos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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