
Destination Gulag, (Hardcover)
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Destination Gulag is Steven Kashuba's hardcover history of the Kozlov family, branded kulaks under Stalin's collectivization and deported in cattle cars to Soviet labor camps in Siberia. It follows the wider Gulag system too: state seizure of farms, mass arrests of dissenters, and camp life where prisoners were fed if useful and starved if not. Kashuba writes as a family historian, aiming to recover a deportation that left, in his words, few footprints. Readers who want a personal, narrative account of Stalin's camps will find it closer to a family chronicle than to an academic monograph built on newly opened archives.
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Destination Gulag follows the Kozlov family during Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union. After Lenin's death, Stalin moves to state control of production and distribution. The Kozlovs are branded as kulaks, and their farm is seized under collectivization.
The book tells of the family's deportation to Siberia. Dissenters are interrogated, arrested and sent in cattle cars to isolated concentration and labor camps. Prisoners are shuttled from camp to camp, fed if they are useful and starved if they are not.
The author also addresses how little is known about the Gulag. Archives were closed, access to camp sites was forbidden, and no cameras filmed the camps or their victims. He writes that Russia has few monuments to the victims and no national place of mourning. The book aims to capture the tragedy, and perhaps the triumph, of the Kozlov family's deportation.
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