Category Archives: Gulag Town Company Town
Gulag Town, Company Town – First Response
First of all, I want to thank: Steve Harris and Steve Barnes for taking the time to organize these blog conversations; Ana, Ekaterina, Asif, Wilson, and Jeff for taking the time to read my book with such care and offer … Continue reading
Posted in Gulag Town Company Town
Leave a comment
Gulag Town and the “Little Zone” vs. the “Big Zone”
The main question Alan Barenberg urges us to ponder is the question of space. Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, and others have conditioned us into thinking of Gulag space as separate space. Alan’s book, however, explicitly “aims to free the Gulag from Solzhenitsyn’s … Continue reading
Posted in Gulag, Gulag Town Company Town
1 Comment
Released Prisoners and the Question of “Company Town”
Thank you to Steve Barnes and to Steve Harris at the Second World Urbanity blog for organizing this forum. And a special thanks to Alan, of course, for allowing his fascinating book to be discussed in such fashion. To start … Continue reading
Posted in Gulag Town Company Town
2 Comments
Gulag Town, Company Town, and the History of the Gulag
Thanks, Steve, for inviting me to participate in another Blog Conversation on the Gulag! Since we have almost a complete handful of Gulag specialists in on this conversation, I thought it might be useful to place Alan’s excellent book within … Continue reading
Gulag Town, Company Town: A Blog Conversation
We are excited to be trying something new with the latest in our series of blog conversations. We are co-hosting this blog conversation in conjunction with the Second World Urbanity Project blog. You can follow part of the conversation here … Continue reading
