Kritika Volume 16 No.3

Special Issue: The Soviet Gulag New Research and New Interpretations

From the Editors

What Was the Gulag?     469

Note

Aglaya K. Glebova
Picturing the Gulag     476

Articles

Oleg Khlevniuk
The Gulag and the Non-Gulag as One Interrelated Whole     479

Golfo Alexopoulos
Destructive-Labor Camps: Rethinking Solzhenitsyn’s Play on Words     499

Dan Healey
Lives in the Balance: Weak and Disabled Prisoners and the Biopolitics of the Gulag     527

Asif Siddiqi
Science in the Gulag: State and Terror in Stalin’s Sharashka     557

Emilia Koustova
(Un)Returned from the Gulag Life Trajectories and Integration of Postwar Special Settlers     589

Daniel Beer
Penal Deportation to Siberia and the Limits of State Power, 1801–81     621

Aidan Forth
Britain’s Archipelago of Camps: Labor and Detention in a Liberal Empire, 1871–1903     651

Judith Pallot
The Gulag as the Crucible of Russia’s 21st-Century System of Punishment     681

Reaction

David R. Shearer
The Soviet Gulag—an Archipelago?     709

Letters

Shoshana Keller
To the Editors     725

Contributors to This Issue     727