"Bollinger tells a fascinating tale about one of the more sordid chapters in the history of Stalin's forced labor empire. The book should also be read for its lessons about the West's inadvertent complicity in this sorry saga." -- David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye^LBrock University^Lauthor, ^IToward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan^R "An ingenious use of neglected sources to shed new light on the workings of Stalin's labor camp system." -- David Stone^Lauthor of ^IHammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933^R
Preface: A Horrible Secret Here Stones Cry The Labor Camps at the End of the World Development of the Gulag Transport Fleet Prisoner Transport Operations Below the Decks: The Prisoners' Stories Shipwrecks in the Far North Did 12,000 People Starve to Death on Dzhurma A Question of Numbers: Correcting the Historical Record The NKVD's Ships The Western Connection What Did the West Know and When Did It Know It? Kolyma Today Appendix A: Other Western-Built Ships of the Gulag Fleet Appendix B: Soviet-Built Gulag Ships Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography
MARTIN J. BOLLINGER is a full-time management consultant with a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, specializing in business and operations strategy for the aerospace, defense, and transportation industries. In his spare time, he researches and writes about maritime history. He has lived and worked in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, and currently resides in Great Falls, Virginia.
Management consultant and student of maritime history Bollinger has
written a valuable book on the maritime transportation system that
Stalin used to send tens of thousands of Soviet citizens to the
Kolyma prison camps. In clear and concise prose, he describes not
only how Stalin supplied the Gulag camps of northeastern Siberia
with forced labor, but also how the European and US governments
acquiesced in this slave trade and actually built or refurbished
many of the ships in Stalin's fleet….Highly recommended.
Upper-division undergraduates and above.
*Choice*
Bolinger's admirable study shines a clear light into one of the
darker corners of the Soviet forced labour system, and it will be
of interest both to those studying the Gulag and to maritime
historians in general.
*International Journal of Maritime History*
Bollinger skillfully details this tragic tale using firsthand
testimony from those involved in the operation and materials from
both American and Russian archives.
*Lt. Colonel Robert A. Lynn, Florida Guard*
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