Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History is, as its name suggests, dedicated to critical inquiry into the history and culture of Russia and Eurasia. Since 2000 Kritika has been dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it often translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, covered in North American Russian studies journals.
CONTENTS
From the EditorsWhat Was the Gulag? … 469
Note
Aglaya K. Glebova Picturing the Gulag … 476
Articles
Oleg Khlevniuk The Gulag and the Non-Gulag as One Interrelated Whole … 479
Golfo Alexopoulos Destructive-Labor Camps: Rethinking Solzhenitsyn’s Play on Words … 499
Dan Healey Lives in the Balance: Weak and Disabled Prisoners and the Biopolitics of the Gulag … 527
Asif Siddiqi Scientists and Specialists in the Gulag: Life and Death in Stalin’s Sharashka … 557
Emilia Koustova (Un)Returned from the Gulag: Life Trajectories and Integration of Postwar Special Settlers … 589
Daniel Beer Penal Deportation to Siberia and the Limits of State Power, 1801–81 … 621
Aidan Forth Britain’s Archipelago of Camps: Labor and Detention in a Liberal Empire, 1871–1903 … 651
Judith Pallot The Gulag as the Crucible of Russia’s 21st-Century System of Punishment … 681
Reaction
David R. Shearer The Soviet Gulag—an Archipelago? … 711
Letters
Shoshana Keller To the Editors … 725
Contributors to This Issue … 727