Zhanna Popova is a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include labour history, social history of Eastern Europe and Russia, and history of migration, with a particular interest towards the conditions and struggles of marginalized workers.

• Introduction, Chapter 1. A Threatening Geography: Shifting Usages of Forced Displacement and Convict Labour, 1879–1905, Chapter 2. Under Pressure: Revolution, Repression, and War in the Russian Empire, 1905–1917, Chapter 3. Blueprints for the Gulag? The Advance of Mass Internment, 1914–1923, Chapter 4. Revolutionary Utopias and Dystopias: Violence and the Making of the Soviet Man, 1923–1929, Chapter 5. Special Settlements and the Making of the Gulag, 1929–1934, Epilogue. Paroxysms of Violence, 1937–1953.