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Author:

Bollinger, Martin J., 1958-

Title:

Stalin's slave ships : Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the role of the West / Martin J. Bollinger.

Edition:

1st Naval Institute Press pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Naval Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xv, 217 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Convict ships--Soviet Union--History.
Penal transportation--Soviet Union.
Political prisoners--Soviet Union.
Concentration camps--Soviet Union.
Penal colonies--Soviet Union.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index.

Contents:

Here stones cry -- The labor camps at the end of the world -- Development of the Gulag fleet -- Prisoner transport operations -- Below decks : the prisoners' stories -- Shipwrecks in the far north -- Did twelve thousand people starve to death on Dzhurma? -- Questions of numbers : correcting the historical record -- The NKVD's ships -- The Western connection -- What did the West know, and when did it know it? -- Kolyma today.

ISBN:

1591140463 (alk. paper)
9781591140467 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)212375641

LCCN:

2008005118

Locations:

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)