Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps
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In the frozen wastes of northeastern Siberia, where temperatures plunge to lethal extremes, the Soviet state constructed one of history's most murderous penal systems — and Robert Conquest's Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps stands as the definitive reckoning with that horror. Drawing on survivor testimonies, official records, and exhaustive historical research, Conquest chronicles the vast network of Gulag labour camps that stretched across the Kolyma region, where millions of Soviet citizens were sent to mine gold, fell timber, and ultimately perish under conditions of deliberate brutality, starvation, and extreme cold. He meticulously details the machinery of repression — the quotas, the executions, the deliberate policies of annihilation — that made Kolyma synonymous with state-sanctioned death on an industrial scale. Conquest, one of the twentieth century's most formidable historians of Soviet totalitarianism, writes with a forensic clarity that transforms harrowing statistics into indelible human tragedy, situating Kolyma within the broader catastrophe of Stalinist terror. His argument is uncompromising: these camps were not a tragic aberration but a structural instrument of Soviet power, designed to terrorise, exploit, and destroy. Published by Oxford University Press, this landmark work remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the true cost of ideological tyranny — and the question it leaves unanswered is perhaps the most disturbing of all: how many died, and will we ever truly know?
Author: Robert Conquest
Format: Paperback
Published: 1979, Oxford University Press
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the frozen wastes of northeastern Siberia, where temperatures plunge to lethal extremes, the Soviet state constructed one of history's most murderous penal systems — and Robert Conquest's Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps stands as the definitive reckoning with that horror. Drawing on survivor testimonies, official records, and exhaustive historical research, Conquest chronicles the vast network of Gulag labour camps that stretched across the Kolyma region, where millions of Soviet citizens were sent to mine gold, fell timber, and ultimately perish under conditions of deliberate brutality, starvation, and extreme cold. He meticulously details the machinery of repression — the quotas, the executions, the deliberate policies of annihilation — that made Kolyma synonymous with state-sanctioned death on an industrial scale. Conquest, one of the twentieth century's most formidable historians of Soviet totalitarianism, writes with a forensic clarity that transforms harrowing statistics into indelible human tragedy, situating Kolyma within the broader catastrophe of Stalinist terror. His argument is uncompromising: these camps were not a tragic aberration but a structural instrument of Soviet power, designed to terrorise, exploit, and destroy. Published by Oxford University Press, this landmark work remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the true cost of ideological tyranny — and the question it leaves unanswered is perhaps the most disturbing of all: how many died, and will we ever truly know?