Name: Gulag: A History
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Author: Anne Applebaum
ISBN: 9781400034093

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anne Applebaum

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

736

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.3x3.8 cm

Weight

0.72 kg.

ISBN

1400034094

ISBN13

9781400034093

Synopsis "Gulag: A History "

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - This magisterial and acclaimed history 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. "A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be." -The New York Times 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.

Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum is a columnist at The Atlantic and senior fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She has published Gulag, Iron Curtain (awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category), Red Famine (which won the Cundill Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award), Twilight of Democracy, and Between East and West in Debate. She lives in Poland with her husband, Polish politician Radosław Sikorski, and their two children.

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