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A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror

In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror.

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ISBN-13:	9780300179415
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	04/25/2017
Series:	Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Golfo Alexopoulos is professor of history at the University of South Florida and author of Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926–1936. She lives in Saint Petersburg, FL.

Acknowledgments ix

A Note on Archives and Language xi

Map of Locations of Forced Labor Camps and Colonies during the Stalin Years xii

Introduction: Exploiting "Human Raw Material" 1

1 Food: "Whoever Does Not Work, Shall Not Eat" 19

2 Prisoners: "The Contingent" 44

3 Health: "Physical Labor Capability" 62

4 Illness and Mortality: "Lost Labor Days" 85

5 Invalids: "Inferior Workforce" 109

6 Releases: "Unloading the Ballast" 133

7 Power: "We Are Not Doctors but Delousers" 160

8 Selection: "The More (and Less) Valuable Human Element" 183

9 Exploitation: "Labor Utilization" 208

Epilogue: Deaths and Deceptions 232

Notes 249

Index 301

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Alexopoulos’s study of the Gulag medical system provides a wealth of new data based on meticulous archival research that should bring a significant change in scholars’ understanding of the Soviet calculus of punishment, productivity, and the value of human life.”—Choice

“A significant scholarly contribution, an invitation for further discussion among scholars of the gulag and, for non-specialists, a very useful entrée into recent literature.”—Daniel P. Todes, Russian Review

"This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book’s findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed."—Oleg Khlevniuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

“A well-researched, clearly written book providing a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Soviet system of forced labor camps and colonies.”—Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

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“A well-researched, clearly written book providing a fresh and provocative reinterpretation of the Soviet system of forced labor camps and colonies.”—Alan Barenberg, author of Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

Alan Barenberg

"This is an important and ground-breaking study of the catastrophe of the Stalinist Gulag. Golfo Alexopoulos demonstrates how the ruthless exploitation of prisoners, hunger, and a lack of medical care turned Stalinist camps into 'destructive-labor camps.' I am certain that this book’s findings about Gulag medicine and the true scale of prisoner mortality will be widely cited and discussed."—Oleg Khlevniuk, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation) and author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

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