CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

The Origins, Functions, and Institutions of the Gulag

CHAPTER 2

Reclaiming the Margins and the Marginal: Gulag Practices in Karaganda, 1930s

CHAPTER 3

Categorizing Prisoners: The Identities of the Gulag

CHAPTER 4

Armageddon and the Gulag, 1939–1945

CHAPTER 5

A New Circle of Hell: The Postwar Gulag and the Rise of the Special Camps

CHAPTER 6

The Crash of the Gulag: Releases and Uprisings in the Post-Stalin Era

CONCLUSION

Notes

References

Index