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Book Panel: Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies

Friday, February 25, 2022 @ 12:00 pm1:30 pm

Please join us for the launch of the new volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022). Editors Alan Barenberg and Emily Johnson will be joined by contributors Gavin Slade (Nazarbayev University), Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Helsinki), and Sarah Young (University College London), discussant Dan Healey (University of Oxford), and moderator Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University).

The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union’s ethnicities, professions, and social classes?

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Date:
Friday, February 25, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Website:
https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/book-panel-rethinking-the-gulag/

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Harriman Institute
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212.854.4623
Email
harriman@columbia.edu
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