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Steven Barnes reinterprets the Soviet Gulag as a penal system built to reeducate prisoners through forced labor rather than to exterminate them, arguing that the camps sorted inmates into those allowed back into Soviet society and those who died. He draws on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan and on prisoner memoirs, focusing on the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, which held the full range of Soviet detention institutions. The book traces the system from the 1917 revolution to its decline after Stalin's death in 1953. It suits readers of Soviet history and comparative studies of camps and punishment; it is a scholarly monograph, not a survivor's memoir, and it argues a thesis rather than narrating individual lives.
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Death and Redemption is a reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag in Soviet society. The Gulag was the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons. Author Steven Barnes argues that it must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society.
The book says Soviet authorities had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag. Unlike the Nazis, they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. Millions deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive.
Barnes draws on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan, as well as memoirs by prisoners. He focuses on one outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, which featured the full range of Soviet detention institutions. The book traces the Gulag experience from its beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline following Stalin's death in 1953.
