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THE SOVIET GULAG - JEFFREY S HARDY KARTONIERT (TB)

A vivid account of the Gulag  the Soviet Union's infamous penal system  this book charts how
Bolshevik visions of a humane alternative to Tsarist exile and Western penitentiaries became a
chaotic and violent system of mass incarceration that bore a tragic human toll. As the first
concise history in the English language  The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory provides an
illuminating account of the Gulag from 1917  through to the end of the Soviet Union and the
contested memory of the Gulag that persists today. Beginning with their conception  during the
various penal experiments of the 1920s  their expansion  during the campaigns against perceived
enemies of the Soviet regime in the 1930s  and their decline in the years proceeding Stalin's
death  Jeffrey S. Hardy explores how many facets of Gulag life endured right up until the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He addresses both the intentions of administrators and
the experience of inmates  as well as covering the main scholarly debates surrounding these
issues  Crucially  the book also examines the post-Soviet era. You discover how politicians 
nongovernmental organizations  and Gulag survivors have debated how or even if to commemorate
the victims of the Gulag. Hardy reveals that despite numerous monuments and museum displays
emerging out of these discussions  the Gulag's legacy remains hotly contested in Russia today

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