Jeffrey S Hardy
Biographic Data
| ID | 323436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey S Hardy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey S |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardy |
| SIGNATURE | HARDY J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-9618-3725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Asia in the Russian Imagination
This special issue of Sibirica is devoted to exploring Russia’s complicated relationship with Asia. Along with an edited volume (Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities, forthcoming), it is an outgrowth of the “Asia in the Russian Imagination” conference that was held at the University of Utah in March 2018. This conference brought together an interdisciplinary body of scholars from the United States, Canada, and Russia to discu…
Chaos in Siberia
This essay reviews new books by Sarah Badcock, Daniel Beer, and Andrew Gentes on Siberian exile in the long nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of memoirs and archival documents, all three studies shed new light on the aims, practices, and lived experience of exile, with Beer providing a broad overview and Gentes and Badcock focusing on specific episodes. Meticulously researched and well written, the books demonstrate the chaotic nature of exil…
We Can’t Shoot Everyone”
This paper furthers our understanding of criminal justice in the Khrushchev era by examining discussions of pardon appeals from inmates awaiting execution. Transcripts of these meetings of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR reveal complex negotiations of leniency, harshness, socialist legality, judicial independence, and Communist morality by the Soviet Union’s second‐tier leaders, and in particular Presidium chairmen Kliment Voroshi…
Of pelicans and prisoners
The Soviet penal system, commonly referred to by its Stalin-era acronym, Gulag, exposed millions to conditions of imprisonment from 1917 to 1991. Penal institutions were located throughout the Soviet Union, but were concentrated especially in remote and sparsely populated areas such as the Far North, Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. They were typically camps instead of prisons, with inmates sleeping in communal barracks and performing labour at ou…
The Gulag after Stalin
In The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin's death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane institution that reeducated criminals into honest Soviet citizens. Under the leadership of Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Dudorov, a Khrushchev appointee, this drive to change the Gulag i…
A Very Important Yet Complicated Matter”
Informant networks were an integral feature of the Soviet Gulag. This article sheds light on their size, structure, recruitment methods, aims, and results using archival documentation primarily from the Estonian ssr . Focusing on the Khrushchev era, it demonstrates that although the regime placed high value on the networks as a way of fighting crime and managing inmate behavior, various factors mitigated against the realization of these goals. In…
The Soviet Gulag
The past several years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the Soviet penal system, commonly known by its Stalin-era acronym, Gulag. Announcements for new books, articles, special journal issues, and conferences appear regularly, and scholars are taking advantage of newly available archival documents and thousands of published and unpublished memoirs, among other materials. This edited volume, much of which was already published in “The So…
Letting the Beasts Out of the Cage’
After a lapse of 15 years under Stalin, parole was reintroduced into the Soviet Gulag in 1954. For justice officials anxious to expunge Stalin's repressive legacy, the resurrection of parole signalled a return to correctionalism, societal oversight over the Gulag, and a vastly reduced rate of incarceration. In practice, though, parole exposed significant continuities with the Stalinist Gulag, including endemic corruption, overwhelming concern wit…
Perspectives on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides
This forum includes commentaries by seven experts—Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman—on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term “genocidal,” the application of “genocide” to the atrocities perpetr…
Gulag Tourism
After Stalin's death, his heirs engaged in a substantive transformation of the Gulag that dramatically lowered the number of prisoners in the Soviet Union while placing heavy emphasis on re-education rather than economic extraction. Meanwhile, however, the release and repatriation of foreigners from the Gulag in the 1950s resulted in a wave of bad publicity for the Soviet penal system, and by extension the Soviet system as a whole, just as it was…
Police attitudes in assigning responsibility for wife abuse
We Can’t Shoot Everyone”
This paper furthers our understanding of criminal justice in the Khrushchev era by examining discussions of pardon appeals from inmates awaiting execution. Transcripts of these meetings of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR reveal complex negotiations of leniency, harshness, socialist legality, judicial independence, and Communist morality by the Soviet Union’s second‐tier leaders, and in particular Presidium chairmen Kliment Voroshi…
Of pelicans and prisoners
The Soviet penal system, commonly referred to by its Stalin-era acronym, Gulag, exposed millions to conditions of imprisonment from 1917 to 1991. Penal institutions were located throughout the Soviet Union, but were concentrated especially in remote and sparsely populated areas such as the Far North, Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. They were typically camps instead of prisons, with inmates sleeping in communal barracks and performing labour at ou…
Perspectives on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides
This forum includes commentaries by seven experts—Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman—on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term “genocidal,” the application of “genocide” to the atrocities perpetr…
Gulag Tourism
After Stalin's death, his heirs engaged in a substantive transformation of the Gulag that dramatically lowered the number of prisoners in the Soviet Union while placing heavy emphasis on re-education rather than economic extraction. Meanwhile, however, the release and repatriation of foreigners from the Gulag in the 1950s resulted in a wave of bad publicity for the Soviet penal system, and by extension the Soviet system as a whole, just as it was…
Police attitudes in assigning responsibility for wife abuse
Police attitudes in assigning responsibility for wife abuse
Perspectives on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides
This forum includes commentaries by seven experts—Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman—on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term “genocidal,” the application of “genocide” to the atrocities perpetr…
Gulag Tourism
After Stalin's death, his heirs engaged in a substantive transformation of the Gulag that dramatically lowered the number of prisoners in the Soviet Union while placing heavy emphasis on re-education rather than economic extraction. Meanwhile, however, the release and repatriation of foreigners from the Gulag in the 1950s resulted in a wave of bad publicity for the Soviet penal system, and by extension the Soviet system as a whole, just as it was…
Letting the Beasts Out of the Cage’
After a lapse of 15 years under Stalin, parole was reintroduced into the Soviet Gulag in 1954. For justice officials anxious to expunge Stalin's repressive legacy, the resurrection of parole signalled a return to correctionalism, societal oversight over the Gulag, and a vastly reduced rate of incarceration. In practice, though, parole exposed significant continuities with the Stalinist Gulag, including endemic corruption, overwhelming concern wit…
The Gulag after Stalin
In The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin's death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane institution that reeducated criminals into honest Soviet citizens. Under the leadership of Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Dudorov, a Khrushchev appointee, this drive to change the Gulag i…
A Very Important Yet Complicated Matter”
Informant networks were an integral feature of the Soviet Gulag. This article sheds light on their size, structure, recruitment methods, aims, and results using archival documentation primarily from the Estonian ssr . Focusing on the Khrushchev era, it demonstrates that although the regime placed high value on the networks as a way of fighting crime and managing inmate behavior, various factors mitigated against the realization of these goals. In…
The Soviet Gulag
The past several years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the Soviet penal system, commonly known by its Stalin-era acronym, Gulag. Announcements for new books, articles, special journal issues, and conferences appear regularly, and scholars are taking advantage of newly available archival documents and thousands of published and unpublished memoirs, among other materials. This edited volume, much of which was already published in “The So…
Chaos in Siberia
This essay reviews new books by Sarah Badcock, Daniel Beer, and Andrew Gentes on Siberian exile in the long nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of memoirs and archival documents, all three studies shed new light on the aims, practices, and lived experience of exile, with Beer providing a broad overview and Gentes and Badcock focusing on specific episodes. Meticulously researched and well written, the books demonstrate the chaotic nature of exil…
We Can’t Shoot Everyone”
This paper furthers our understanding of criminal justice in the Khrushchev era by examining discussions of pardon appeals from inmates awaiting execution. Transcripts of these meetings of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR reveal complex negotiations of leniency, harshness, socialist legality, judicial independence, and Communist morality by the Soviet Union’s second‐tier leaders, and in particular Presidium chairmen Kliment Voroshi…
Of pelicans and prisoners
The Soviet penal system, commonly referred to by its Stalin-era acronym, Gulag, exposed millions to conditions of imprisonment from 1917 to 1991. Penal institutions were located throughout the Soviet Union, but were concentrated especially in remote and sparsely populated areas such as the Far North, Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. They were typically camps instead of prisons, with inmates sleeping in communal barracks and performing labour at ou…
Asia in the Russian Imagination
This special issue of Sibirica is devoted to exploring Russia’s complicated relationship with Asia. Along with an edited volume (Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities, forthcoming), it is an outgrowth of the “Asia in the Russian Imagination” conference that was held at the University of Utah in March 2018. This conference brought together an interdisciplinary body of scholars from the United States, Canada, and Russia to discu…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Soviet and Russian History (7 works) · Gulag (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Soviet union (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)