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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793261003321

Autore

Bell Wilson T.

Titolo

Stalin's Gulag at War : Forced Labour, Mass Death, and Soviet Victory in the Second World War / / Wilson T. Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]

©2018

ISBN

1-4875-1941-9

1-4875-1940-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Disciplina

947.08420924

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Conscript labor - Soviet Union

History

Electronic books.

Soviet Union

URSS Histoire 1925-1953

Soviet Union History 1925-1953

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Stalin's Gulag at War; 1 Ready for Total War?; 2 Total War, Total Mobilization; 3 Patriotic Prisoners; 4 Patriotic Personnel; 5 The Gulag's Victory; Epilogue: Memory, Stalin's Gulag, and the Great Patriotic War; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stalin's Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. The author explores a diverse array of issues, including mass death, informal practices, and the responses of prisoners and personnel to the war.