[PULITZER] Anne Applebaum - Gulag - A History [EPUB] [Qwerty80]

Release Date: April 9, 2004 | EPUB





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. 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. 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.