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Stalin's slave ships : Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the role of the West
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Stalin's slave ships : Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the role of the West

Author: Martin J Bollinger
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
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"Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed into extraordinary service. The fleet's task was to relocate approximately one-million forced laborers to the soviet Gulag in Kolyma, located along the Arctic Circle in far northeastern Siberia. The Kolyma Gulag, the most infamous in the Soviet Union, was accessible only by sea, and the fleet became the lifeblood of the entire operation. As one of  Read more...
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Bollinger, Martin J., 1958-
Stalin's slave ships.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003
(OCoLC)655045251
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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Bollinger details the unwitting role that the U.S. played in the transport of forced laborers to the infamous Kolyma Gulag.  Read more...

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schema:reviewBody""Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed into extraordinary service. The fleet's task was to relocate approximately one-million forced laborers to the soviet Gulag in Kolyma, located along the Arctic Circle in far northeastern Siberia. The Kolyma Gulag, the most infamous in the Soviet Union, was accessible only by sea, and the fleet became the lifeblood of the entire operation. As one of the largest seaborne movements of people in history, this transport took a devastating toll on human lives. Bollinger presents the often-horrific stories of the Gulag fleet and its passengers and reveals the unwitting role of the United States government in the operation."--BOOK JACKET."
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