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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bollinger, Martin J., 1958- Stalin's slave ships. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003 (OCoLC)655045251 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin J Bollinger |
| ISBN: | 0275981002 9780275981006 |
| OCLC Number: | 52258338 |
| Description: | xv, 217 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface: A horrible secret. -- Here stones cry. -- The labor camps at the end of the world. -- Development of the Gulag fleet. -- Prisoner transport operations. -- Below decks; the prisoners' stories. -- Shipwrecks in the far North. -- Did twelve thousand people starve to death on Dzhurma? -- Questions of numbers: correcting the historical record. -- The NKVD's ships. -- The Western connection. -- What did the West know, and when did it know it? -- Kolyma today. -- Appendix A: Other Western-built ships of the Gulag fleet. -- Appendix B: Soviet-built Gulag ships. |
| Responsibility: | Martin J. Bollinger. |
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Abstract:
Bollinger details the unwitting role that the U.S. played in the transport of forced laborers to the infamous Kolyma Gulag.
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<p>"Bollinger skillfully details this tragic tale using firsthand testimony from those involved in the operation and materials from both American and Russian archives." - <p>Lt. Colonel Robert A. Lynn, Florida Guard Read more...
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- Convict ships -- Soviet Union -- History.
- Penal transportation -- Soviet Union.
- Political prisoners -- Soviet Union.
- Concentration camps -- Soviet Union.
- Penal colonies -- Soviet Union.
- Kriegsgefangener
- Schiff
- Transport
- Arbeitslager
- Sowjetunion
- Kolyma
- goulag -- prisonnier -- transport maritime -- URSS - est -- 1932 / 1953.
