Ebook {Epub PDF} Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum

It is an epic feat of investigation and moral reckoning that places the Gulag where it belongs: at the center of our understanding of the troubled history of the twentieth century. Anne Applebaum 4/5(18). was published in the West in several languages in –. His oral history of the camps, The Gulag Archipelago, caused much comment when it appeared, again in several languages, in Indeed, The Gulag Archipelago led to a minor intellectual revolution in some countries, ANNE APPLEBAUM PAGE 4. Anne Applebaum delivers an important, comprehensive, and damning history of the Gulag. The vast array of Soviet concentration camps originated in the Bolshevik Revolution and lasted until well after Stalin's death, with the final amnesty of political prisoners occurring in the mids. These camps held millions of criminal and political prisoners/5.

Showing of Gulag: A History (Hardcover) Published by Doubleday. 1st, Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Anne Applebaum. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. 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. I started GULAG once, got so depressed that I set it aside, and then picked it up and read it through again. Anne Applebaum's work is more of a straightforward history that Solzhenitsyn's personal memoir The GULAG Archipelago; Applebaum, of course, had access to historic records of the XSSR while Solzhenitsyn had to depend on his own and other inmate's memories.

It is an epic feat of investigation and moral reckoning that places the Gulag where it belongs: at the center of our understanding of the troubled history of the twentieth century. Anne Applebaum. 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. GULAG: A History is a narrative account of the origins and development of the Soviet concentration camps, from Lenin to Gorbachev. Based on archives, interviews, new research and recently published memoirs, the book explains the role that the camps played in the Soviet political and economic system. It also describes daily life in the camps: how people lived, worked, ate, slept, fought, died and survived.