Death and redemption: the Gulag and the shaping of Soviet society, by Steven A. Barnes, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011, xii, 352 pp., $31.57 (paperback), ISBN 978-0691151120

Abstract

In Death and Redemption, Steven Barnes provides the first major revision in our understanding of the Gulag since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago of the 1970s. Barnes, while noting that S...