Full name: Gulag: A History

Author: Anne Applebaum Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, Politics, War/Military Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780767900560 9781400034093 0767900561 1400034094

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. Similar books: Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick The Whisperers by Orlando Figes The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain The Great Terror by Robert Conquest A History of Modern Russia by Robert Service The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Armageddon Averted by Stephen Kotkin The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine Red Fortress by Catherine Merridale Moscow, December 25, 1991 by Conor O'Clery Moscow, 1937 by Karl Schlogel Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis The Gun by C. J. Chivers The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer