Contents
List of Abbreviations
Foreword | David R. Shearer
Chapter 1. Introduction: From Bounded to Juxtapositional—New Histories of the Gulag | Michael David-Fox
Part I. Evidence and Interpretation
Chapter 2. The Gulag and the Non-Gulag as One Interrelated Whole | Oleg Khlevniuk
Chapter 3. Destructive Labor Camps: Rethinking Solzhenitsyn’s Play on Words | Golfo Alexopoulos
Chapter 4. Lives in the Balance: Weak and Disabled Prisoners and the Biopolitics of the Gulag | Dan Healey
Chapter 5. Scientists and Specialists in the Gulag: Life and Death in Stalin’s Sharashka | Asif Siddiqi
Chapter 6. Forced Labor on the Home Front: The Gulag and Total War in Western Siberia, 1940–1945 | Wilson T. Bell
Chapter 7. (Un)Returned from the Gulag: Life Trajectories and Integration of Postwar Special Settlers | Emilia Koustova
Chapter 8. A Visual History of the Gulag: Nine Theses | Aglaya K. Glebova
Part II. Comparison
Chapter 9. Penal Deportation to Siberia and the Limits of State Power, 1801–1881 | Daniel Beer
Chapter 10. Britain’s Archipelago of Camps: Labor and Detention in a Liberal Empire, 1871–1903 | Aidan Forth
Chapter 11. Camp Worlds and Forced Labor: A Comparison of the National Socialist and Soviet Camp Systems | Dietrich Beyrau
Chapter 12. “Repaying Blood Debt”: The Chinese Labor Camp System during the 1950s | Klaus Mülhahn
Chapter 13. The Origins and Evolution of the North Korean Prison Camps: A Comparison with the Soviet Gulag | Sungmin Cho
Chapter 14. The Gulag as the Crucible of Russia’s Twenty-First-Century System of Punishment | Judith Pallot
Chapter 15. The Gulag: An Incarnation of the State That Created It | Bettina Greiner
Notes
Contributors
Index