Stalin's Slave Ships : Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West

by Bollinger, Martin J.

• ISBN13: 9781591140467
• ISBN10: 1591140463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

"This book documents the often horrific stories of the Gulag fleet and its passengers and reveals the unwitting role of the U. S. government in the operation. U.S. shipyards built most of the Gulag fleet and later overhauled many ships free of charge. Bollinger details this tragic saga of forced relocation using firsthand testimony from those involved in the operation and materials from both American and Russian archives. His examination of how much Washington knew about the use of American ships to transport slave laborers adds valuable information to the record of the Soviet Union under Stalin."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Horrible Secret
Here Stones Cry	p. 1
The Labor Camps at the End of the World	p. 9
Development of the Gulag Fleet	p. 21
Prisoner Transport Operations	p. 27
Below Decks: The Prisoners' Stories	p. 45
Shipwrecks in the Far North	p. 55
Did Twelve Thousand People Starve to Death on Dzhurma?	p. 65
Questions of Numbers: Correcting the Historical Record	p. 75
The NKVD's Ships	p. 87
The Western Connection	p. 105
What Did the West Know, and When Did It Know It?	p. 119
Kolyma Today	p. 133
Other Western-Built Ships of the Gulag Fleet	p. 137
Soviet-Built Gulag Ships	p. 157
Notes	p. 163
Selected Bibliography	p. 195
Index	p. 207
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