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Gulag: A History

By Anne Applebaum

Book information

Publisher
Anchor Books
Year
2004
ISBN
1400034094, 9781400034093
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1384184 bytes)
Pages
736\0
Time added
2017-02-16 14:30:32

Description

In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

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