The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union ... - Jeffrey S. Hardy - Google Books

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In The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin's death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane…