Documents on the history of the Lake Camp in the Irkutsk oblast’ (1948–63)

Abstract

The publication of Solzhenitsyn's massive Gulag Archipelago (1973) provided a unique, stark and detailed description of the Soviet Union's vast penal camp system. For years, however, this seminal work stood as the sole memorial to the millions who suffered or perished in the Soviet penal system. Afanasov's fresh work, based on in‐depth analysis of a single Siberian camp in the Gulag system adds new detail and insight as to how the camp system operated and the effect it had on its victims, even well after Stalin's demise.