Stalin's slave ships : Kolyma, the Gulag fleet, and the role of the West
"This book documents the often horrific stories of the Gulag fleet and its passengers and reveals the unwitting role of the U.S. government in the operation. U.S. shipyards built most of the Gulag fleet and later overhauled many ships free of charge. Bollinger details this tragic saga of forced relocation using firsthand testimony from those involved in the operation and materials from both American and Russian archives. His examination of how much Washington knew about the use of American ships to transport slave laborers adds valuable information to the record of the Soviet Union under Stalin."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2008
1st Naval Institute Press pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 2008
History
xv, 217 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9781591140467, 1591140463
212375641
Here stones cry
The labor camps at the end of the world
Development of the Gulag fleet
Prisoner transport operations
Below decks : the prisoners' stories
Shipwrecks in the far north
Did twelve thousand people starve to death on Dzhurma?
Questions of numbers : correcting the historical record
The NKVD's ships
The Western connection
What did the West know, and when did it know it?
Kolyma today