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FROM GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY. >> Host: DEPTH AND REDEMPTION
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IS THE NAME OF THE BOOK, THE GULAG AND THE SHAPING OF SOVIET SOCIETY IS THE TITLE. STEPHEN A. BARNES IS THE AUTHOR. FIRST OF ALL, PROFESSOR BARNES,...
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GULAG IS -- IN SHORT -- WELL, IT HAS TWO MEETINGS. IT'S AN ACRONYM FOR A BUREAUCRATIC INSTITUTION. BUT, OF COURSE, IT'S BEEN USED MUCH MORE GENERALLY...
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| 00:00:49 |
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WORE CAMPS -- LABOR CAMPS START VERY EARLY IN THE SOVIET PERIOD. LENIN HIMSELF TALKS ABOUT THE NEED TO PUT THE ENEMIES OF THE REVOLUTION INTO CONCENTRATION...
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BARNES, WHO DID STALIN SEND TO THE GULAG? >> STALIN SENT A WIDE VARIETY
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OF PEOPLE TO THE GULAG, AND I THINK WE CAN, ESSENTIALLY, THINK OF THREE GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS. FIRST, WE CAN THINK OF THOSE THAT WE MIGHT UNDERSTAND...
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PRISONERS WERE ALLOWED TO NOT WORK FOR A DAY. IT WAS A PLACE THAT WAS MARKED BY VIOLENCE, AMONG PRISONERS THEMSELVES, BODYGUARDS AND THAT PRISONERS....
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YOU FOCUS ON KAZAKHSTAN? >> Guest:
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| 00:05:57 |
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I WAS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING NEW WITH THIS BOOK. HERE WE ARE, AND THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION. THE SOVIET UNION WAS COMING...
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Host: STEVE BARNES, NOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO ACADEMIC RESEARCH ON THE GULAG, HOW ACCURATE AND SIGNIFICANT WAS THE ARCHIPELAGO? >> Guest: AS I HAVE WORKED
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ON THIS OVER THE COURSE OF MANY, MANY YEARS NOW, BUT I'M ALWAYS STRUCK BY HOW MUCH SALT IN EACH AND YOU THINK I HAD ALL OF THE EVENT SHE DIDN'T HAVE....
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THESE CAMPS WERE THERE? WHO RAN THEM? HOW AUTONOMOUS? >> Guest:
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| 00:11:56 |
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THE EXACT NUMBER OF CAMPS IS SOMETHING WE CAN'T REALLY KNOW, BECAUSE IT DEPENDS OF WHAT YOUR DEFINITION OF A CAMP IS. NOW, WHEN YOU THINK THEY CAN'T...
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GULAG SYSTEM COLLAPSE AND HOW? >> Guest: WELL, THE
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| 00:14:39 |
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GULAG REACHES ITS LARGEST IN TERMS OF ITS POPULATION IN THE VERY LATE STALIN YEARS. TALKING ABOUT AFTER WORLD WAR II, LATE 1940s, EARLY 1950s. IN MARCH...
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I WERE TO ADD IN MORE THAN ANYBODY ELSE. THAT ARE OTHER SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN DOING WORK AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REALLY GOOD RUSSIAN SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN...
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THIS PROJECT I WAS TRYING TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE FACT THAT THE GULAG REFERENCE TO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. ONE WOULD ALWAYS DONE WAS IT WAS A PLACE...
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| 00:22:03 |
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BARNES IS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND DIRECTOR OF GEORGE MASON'S CENTER FOR RUSSIAN STUDIES. "DEATH AND REDEMPTION: THE GULAG AND THE SHAPING...
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