Gulag [electronic resource] : A History of the Soviet Camps
Applebaum, Anne2012
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This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West. Using these, as well as her own original research in NKVD archives and interviews with survivors, Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. It is a gigantic feat of investigation, synthesis and moral reckoning.
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Gulag [electronic resource] : A History of the Soviet Camps / Anne Applebaum
Author:
Applebaum, Anne, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books Ltd, 2012
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. She is Professor of Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs, London School of Economics, and a columnist for the Washington Post. She divides her time between Britain and Poland.
Awards:
National Book Award Finalist (National Book Foundation)Pulitzer Prize (Columbia University)National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (The National Book Critics Circle)
ISBN:
9780141975269
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English
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BRN:
2793418
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