Dan Healey

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions. A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions. From 1930 to 1953, eighteen million people passed through this penal-industrial empire. Many inmates, not reaching their quotas,...