Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag - Hardcover

by Golfo Alexopoulos (Author)

A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror

In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror.

Author Biography

Golfo Alexopoulos is professor of history at the University of South Florida and author of Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926-1936. She lives in Saint Petersburg, FL.