"Death and Redemption" offers a fundamental reinterpretation of
the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of
forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society.
Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the
prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they
did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of
genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the
Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where
prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet
society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through
brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who
"failed" never got out alive.
Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as
well as memoirs by actual prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was
integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist
society. He takes readers into the Gulag itself, focusing on one
outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan,
a location that featured the full panoply of Soviet detention
institutions. Barnes traces the Gulag experience from its
beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline
following the 1953 death of Stalin.
"Death and Redemption" reveals how the Gulag defined the border
between those who would reenter Soviet society and those who would
be excluded through death.
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