Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society

Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: The Origins, Functions, and Institutions of the Gulag 7 CHAPTER 2: Reclaiming the Margins and the Marginal: Gulag Practices in Karaganda, 1930s 28 CHAPTER 3: Categorizing Prisoners: The Identities of the Gulag 79 CHAPTER 4: Armageddon and the Gulag, 1939-1945 107 CHAPTER 5: A New Circle of Hell: The Postwar Gulag and the Rise of the Special Camps 155 CHAPTER 6: The Crash of the Gulag: Releases and Uprisings in the Post-Stalin Era 201 CONCLUSION 254 Notes 259 References 329 Index 341