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Britain S Gulag
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Author : Caroline Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-09-21
Britain S Gulag written by Caroline Elkins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-21 with History categories.
Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold. Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals, for the first time, the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.
Imperial Reckoning
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Author : Caroline Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Imperial Reckoning written by Caroline Elkins and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with History categories.
A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth- century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Labour And The Gulag
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Author : Giles Udy
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Labour And The Gulag written by Giles Udy and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with Political Science categories.
The Labour Party welcomed the Russian Revolution in 1917: it paved the way for the birth of a socialist superpower and ushered in a new era in Soviet governance. Labour excused the Bolshevik excesses and prepared for its own revolution in Britain. In 1929, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to work in labour camps. Subjected to appalling treatment, thousands died. When news of the camps leaked out in Britain, there were protests demanding the government ban imports of timber cut by slave labourers. The Labour government of the day dismissed mistreatment claims as Tory propaganda and blocked appeals for an inquiry. Despite the Cabinet privately acknowledging the harsh realities of the work camps, Soviet denials were publicly repeated as fact. One Labour minister even defended them as part of 'a remarkable economic experiment'. Labour and the Gulag explains how Britain's Labour Party was seduced by the promise of a socialist utopia and enamoured of a Russian Communist system it sought to emulate. It reveals the moral compromises Labour made, and how it turned its back on the people in order to further its own political agenda.
Gulag Town Company Town
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Author : Alan Barenberg
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Gulag Town Company Town written by Alan Barenberg and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with History categories.
DIV This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg’s eye-opening study reveals Vorkuta as an active urban center with a substantial nonprisoner population where the borders separating camp and city were contested and permeable, enabling prisoners to establish social connections that would eventually aid them in their transitions to civilian life. With this book, Barenberg makes an important historical contribution to our understanding of forced labor in the Soviet Union and its enduring legacy./div
Gulag Voices
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Author : Anne Applebaum
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-11
Gulag Voices written by Anne Applebaum and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-11 with History categories.
Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
Settler Colonialism In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Caroline Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Settler Colonialism In The Twentieth Century written by Caroline Elkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with History categories.
Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism. Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements in the twentieth century--from European colonial projects in Africa and expansionist efforts by the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria, to the Germans in Poland and the historical trajectories of Israel/Palestine and South Africa--and analyzing the dynamics set in motion by these settlers, the contributors to this volume establish points of comparison to offer a new framework for understanding the character and fate of twentieth-century empires.
Gulag Boss
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Author : Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-29
Gulag Boss written by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the memoir of Fyodor Mochulsky, a man who spent several years in the administration of the Soviet Gulag, including six years supervising the construction of a railroad in the Arctic. It is the first memoir in English from an NKVD (KGB) employee, and recounts his experiences inside the Soviet system of terror and how he came to deal with the logistical and ethical challenges he faced. This book provides a unique perspective on the organization of evil and the thinking of all the apparently ordinary people who help run systems of terror.
White Cargo
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Author : Don Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-20
White Cargo written by Don Jordan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-20 with History categories.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 300,000 people or more became slaves there in all but name. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labour in the tobacco fields, brothels were raided to provide 'breeders' for Virginia and hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become chattels who could be bought, sold and gambled away. Drawing on letters, diaries, and court and government archives, the authors demonstrate that the brutalities associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploitation and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.
Fighting The Mau Mau
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Author : Huw C. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
Fighting The Mau Mau written by Huw C. Bennett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This new study of Britain's counterinsurgency campaign in Kenya examines the difference between official and accepted methods of conquering insurgents.
Mau Mau Nationhood
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Author : E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2003
Mau Mau Nationhood written by E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Decades on from independence the role of Mau Mau still excites argument and controversy, not least in Kenya itself.