"Truth Behind Bars" Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution

• Main Author: Kellogg, Paul (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Athabasca University Press 2021
• Subjects: HBTV4; Martov; Mensheviks; Bolsheviks; Russian Revolution; Vorkuta; Gulag; Arctic Gulags; Lenin; Leftists; Bolshevism; Workers Resistance; Authoritarianism; Hunger Strikes; Socialism; Miners Union; Stalinism; Trotsky; The Great Terror; The Great Purge; Substitutionism; Oral Newspaper; Solzhenitsyn
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Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger strike by socialist prisoners, victims of Joseph Stalin's repressive regime, resulted in mass e...