Book description
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.
Anne Applebaum studied Russian at Yale and International Relations
and East European politics at the LSE and St Antony's College, Oxford.
She has been a writer and editor at
The Economist
and deputy editor at the
Spectator
, as well as Warsaw correspondent for the
Boston Globe
and the
Independent
. She is now a columnist and a member of the editorial board of the
Washington Post
.
