New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies


Steven Barnes, “Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society”

September 23, 2011

Most Westerners know about the Gulag (aka “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Coloniesâ€) thanks to Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s eloquent, heart-wrenching Gulag Archipelago. Since the publication of that book in 1973 (and largely thanks t