Alan Barenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 955539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Barenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Barenberg |
| SIGNATURE | BARENBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Gulag
A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining institutions of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century. Combining the functions of a standard prison system with the goal of isolating and punishing alleged enemies of the Soviet regime, it stretched throughout the Soviet Union, from central Moscow to the farthest reaches of Siberia. Fro…
Vremia “Tikhogo terrora.” Politicheskie repressii na Altae v 1935 – pervoi polovine 1937 g, by Ekaterina Mishina
Stalin
A roundtable on Lynne Viola’s Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
KEYWORDS: Canadian Association of Slavists Taylor & Francis Book PrizeLynne ViolaSoviet UnionUkraineStalinist terrorNKVD
Gulag Town, Company Town
This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish s…
New directions in Gulag studies
On 29 May 2017, Alan Barenberg (the moderator), Wilson Bell, Sean Kinnear, Steve Maddox, and Lynne Viola participated in a roundtable discussion on “New Directions in Gulag Studies” as part of the
Gulag Town, Company Town
Gulag Town, Company Town examines the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost that was built in the 1930s as one of the most notorious prison camp complexes in the Soviet Union. But Vorkuta was not just a camp; it was also a Soviet city, with a substantial non-prisoner population and urban spaces. This book questions the idea that the Gulag was an “archipelago” separated from Soviet society at large. Instead, it examines camp and city t…
Khrushchev's Cold Summer
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Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Gulag Town, Company Town
Gulag Town, Company Town examines the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost that was built in the 1930s as one of the most notorious prison camp complexes in the Soviet Union. But Vorkuta was not just a camp; it was also a Soviet city, with a substantial non-prisoner population and urban spaces. This book questions the idea that the Gulag was an “archipelago” separated from Soviet society at large. Instead, it examines camp and city t…
Gulag Town, Company Town
This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish s…
New directions in Gulag studies
On 29 May 2017, Alan Barenberg (the moderator), Wilson Bell, Sean Kinnear, Steve Maddox, and Lynne Viola participated in a roundtable discussion on “New Directions in Gulag Studies” as part of the
Stalin
A roundtable on Lynne Viola’s Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial
KEYWORDS: Canadian Association of Slavists Taylor & Francis Book PrizeLynne ViolaSoviet UnionUkraineStalinist terrorNKVD
The Gulag
A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining institutions of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century. Combining the functions of a standard prison system with the goal of isolating and punishing alleged enemies of the Soviet regime, it stretched throughout the Soviet Union, from central Moscow to the farthest reaches of Siberia. Fro…
Vremia “Tikhogo terrora.” Politicheskie repressii na Altae v 1935 – pervoi polovine 1937 g, by Ekaterina Mishina
Political science (6 works) · Gulag (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Soviet and Russian History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works)