Origins of the Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934 by Jakobson, Michael

Origins of the Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813156224)

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Origins of the Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934 by Jakobson, Michael

Origins of the Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934

$20.00
Origins of the Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934 by Jakobson, Michael

Origins of the Gulag: The Soviet Prison Camp System, 1917-1934

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to October 1934, when all places of confinement were cons

Author: Michael Jakobson
ISBN-10: 081315622X
ISBN-13: 9780813156224
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
By Michael Jakobson
By Michael Jakobson
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Michael Jakobson is assistant professor of history at the University of Toledo.

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