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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009254903321

Autore

Popova Zhanna

Titolo

Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s / / Zhanna Popova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2024]

©2024

ISBN

1-003-69268-0

90-485-6036-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Social istory of punishment and labour coercion series ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

365.4509470904

Soggetti

Forced labor - Russia (Federation)

Forced labor - Soviet Union

Penal colonies - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Introduction Chapter 1. A Threatening Geography: Shifting Usages of Forced Displacement and Convict Labour, 1879-1905 Chapter 2. Under Pressure: Revolution, Repression, and War in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 Chapter 3. Blueprints for the Gulag? The Advance of Mass Internment, 1914-1923 Chapter 4. Revolutionary Utopias and Dystopias: Violence and the Making of the Soviet Man, 1923-1929 Chapter 5. "Special Settlements" and the Making of the Gulag, 1929-1934 Epilogue. Paroxysms of Violence, 1937-1953

"Amsterdam University Press"

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 A Threatening Geography : Shifting Usages of Forced Displacement and Convict Labour, 1879-1905 -- 2 Under Pressure: Revolution, Repression, and War in the Russian Empire , 1905-1917 -- 3 Blueprints for the Gulag? The Advance of Mass Internment, 1914-1923 -- 4 Revolutionary Utopias and Dystopias : Violence and the Making of the Soviet Man, 1923-1929 -- 5 "Special Settlements" and the Making of the Gulag, 1929-1934 -- Epilogue: Paroxysms of Violence, 1937-1953 -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based investigations, we



now understand the scope of the system, variations between different camp complexes, and modalities of the use of forced labour of convicts. At the same time, the work of historicizing the Gulag and systematically evaluating its position within the global history of repression is still to be done. Exploring the emergence of this vast Soviet system of concentration camps in long-term perspective, this book aims to inscribe this process within global histories of coerced labour, forced displacement, and punishment. It highlights the inextricable interconnection of coerced labour and forced displacement as tools of punishment in the multitude of their historical forms.