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.
- ISBN10 9865727307
- ISBN13 9789865727307
- Publish Date 25 November 2015 (first published 9 April 2004)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Zuo an Wen Hua/ Tsai Fong Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 440
- Language Chinese