Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta
by
Alan Barenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban...