The Soviet Gulag by Jeffrey S. Hardy - 9781350128187

The Soviet GulagHistory and Memory\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey S. Hardy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350128187, 978-1350128187\nSynopsis\nA vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Unions 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nBeginning 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 Stalins death, Jeffrey S. Hardy exply