From Library Journal
Jakobson (history, Univ. of Toledo) has made a valuable contribution to early Soviet scholarship with this study of the development of the Gulag system. He traces the history of the prison administration; the changing views of crime, punishment, and inmate reeducation in the Soviet Union; and the evolving attitude toward the self-sufficiency of prisons, from later imperial Russia through the ascendancy of the Gulag system. Jakobson provides a useful list of the involved agencies at the beginning of the book as well as a summary of those agencies as an appendix. The index and figures were not seen. Recommended for academic libraries with programs in Soviet history.
- John Sand strom, Houston P.L.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- John Sand strom, Houston P.L.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
