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| Thursday, October 23, 2008 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
What happened to the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system after Stalin’s death? What became of the millions of prisoners released during the Thaw? This talk will briefly examine how one of the Soviet Union’s most infamous prison camp complexes, Vorkuta, was transformed into a “company town” in the 1950s and 1960s.
Alan Barenberg is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Geography at Columbus State University. He completed his Ph.D. in Russian history at the University of Chicago in 2007. He is currently at work on a book about Vorkuta from the 1930s to the twenty-first century.
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