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Origins Of The Gulag - The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934 (Paperback)
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Origins Of The Gulag - The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934 (Paperback)
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A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the
Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life
expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly
an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their
tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the
most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October
Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to
October 1934, when all places of confinement were consolidated
under one agency -- the infamous GULAG. The prison camps served the
Soviet government in many ways: to isolate opponents and frighten
the population into submission, to increase labor productivity
through the arrest of "inefficient" workers, and to provide labor
for factories, mines, lumbering, and construction projects.
Jakobson focuses on the structure and interrelations of prison
agencies, the Bolshevik views of crime and punishment and inmate
reeducation, and prison self-sufficiency. He also describes how
political conditions and competition among prison agencies
contributed to an unprecedented expansion of the system. Finally,
he disputes the official claim of 1931 that the system was
profitable -- a claim long accepted by former inmates and Western
researchers and used to explain the proliferation of the camps and
their population. Did Marxism or the Bolshevik Revolution or
Leninism inexorably lead to the GULAG system? Were its origins
truly evil or merely banal? Jakobson's important book probes the
official record to cast new light on a system that for a time
supported but ultimately helped destroy the now fallen Soviet
colossus.
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