Description
This sweeping, deeply researched history traces the rise, expansion, and eventual collapse of the Soviet Union’s vast network of forced-labor camps, from the aftermath of the Russian Revolution through the era of glasnost. Drawing on archival research and firsthand testimony, it reveals the realities of arrest, transportation, labor, deprivation, survival, resistance, and death within this hidden world, while examining the officials and institutions that sustained it. The book also explores the Gulag’s role in Soviet society and wartime history, the diverse communities shaped by imprisonment, and the reasons its legacy has remained incomplete in public memory. Both a historical reckoning and a portrait of human endurance, it offers a definitive account of one of the twentieth century’s most consequential systems of repression.
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paperback
Anchor
Published Apr 9, 2004
736 pages
ISBN: 9781400034093
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First Published
2003
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum.