Reclaiming the Margins and the Marginal: Gulag Practices in Karaganda, 1930s
Reclaiming the Margins and the Marginal: Gulag Practices in Karaganda, 1930s
This chapter looks at the Gulag and the Karaganda camps in the foundational era—the 1930s—and the practices of the camp system as they were shaped in that important decade. The Gulag's practices had largely been established by the end of the 1930s. Practices had been set up and even codified in a detailed set of regulations in 1939 for constructing and running Gulag institutions. They defined the line between survival and death in the Gulag system, tying prisoner survival to measures of reeducation. A prisoner culture and society also emerged as each prisoner sought to negotiate these practices in an effort to survive.
Keywords: Gulag, Soviet Union, prisons, Karaganda camps, camp system, prisoner culture, prison society
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