Description:
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.
Brief description: Jeffrey S. Hardy is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University.
Review Quotes:
[This book] is particularly good at gauging the extent of the Stalinist legacy into the latter half of the 20th century and the changing attitudes to (Soviet) crime and incarceration.... Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
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