Death and Redemption
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union''s vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In t...
Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union''s vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In t...
