{"product_id":"destination-gulag-9781466983113","title":"Destination Gulag","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the death of Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin came into power and immediately moved to state control of production and distribution. The \u003ci\u003eKozlovs\u003c\/i\u003e were branded as kulaks, their farm seized through a policy of collectivization and their crops treated as state property. Stalin interrogated, arrested, and deported dissenters in cattle cars to isolated concentration and labour camps in Siberia. They were treated like cattle, shuttled from camp to camp, fed if useful, starved if not. Unless productive, their lives were worthless to their masters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEven though the Gulag took millions of lives, the indifference towards this phenomenon is startling. The absence of hard information backed up by archival research made it difficult to unlock the horrors of the Gulag. Archives were closed and access to camp sites was forbidden. No television or cameras ever filmed the Soviet camps or its victims.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday, Russians seldom want to debate, discuss, or even acknowledge the Gulag. Russia has few monuments to the victims of Stalin's execution squads and concentration camps. There is no national monument or place of mourning and no government inquiries into what happened in the past. It is as if the deportees left no footprints.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is my fervent hope that \u003ci\u003eDestination Gulag\u003c\/i\u003e will capture the tragedy, and perhaps the triumph, of the deportation of the Kozlov family to Siberia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Kashuba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trafford Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781466983113\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trafford Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45092381720691,"sku":"9781466983113","price":51.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_183cbe58-f8fc-409c-bc1d-e69e972ee019.jpg?v=1781199188","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/destination-gulag-9781466983113","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}