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Duncan Hart

Resistance in Stalin's Gulags: the Vorkuta Uprising

Marxism 2018

"For a time the prisoners had not really been thinking in terms of outward success at all. They were just intoxicated by the strike....For all those taking part in it, the strike was simply the first positive defiant action of this sort ever to take place within the Soviet Union. And that was enough. It was something unheard of, something which no one had ever thought possible even in his wildest dreams." (Dr. Joseph Scholmer, eyewitness). Duncan Hart uncovers the hidden history of resistance in the most challenging circumstances. The Vorkuta uprising is one of those stories that needs to be told.