Gulag (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Anne Applebaum

Gulag (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Anne Applebaum

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * This magisterial and acclaimed history 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.

"A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be." --The New York Times

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

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.

Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist and member of the editorial board. She has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist, and as a columnist for the online magazine Slate, as well as for various British publications. She is a Yale graduate and a Marshall Scholar. Her writing has also featured in a variety of periodicals, including the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal. She and her husband, Radek Sikorski, live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.

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ISBN 13	9781400034093
ISBN 10	1400034094
Title	Gulag (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Author	Anne Applebaum
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-04-09
Number of pages	736
Prizes	Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 2003, Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2004, Short-listed for Mark Lynton History Prize 2004, Short-listed for National Book Awards 2004, Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2004, Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.
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