Gulag, Anne Applebaum
Gulag, Anne Applebaum
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Gulag
A History

Author: Anne Applebaum

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 27 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/10/2012

Synopsis

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.

About Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. A graduate of Yale and a Marshall Scholar, 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 several British newspapers. Her work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Radek Sikorski, and two children

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaci on March 29, 2011

Anne Applebaum received a Pulitzer Prize for her work, Gulag. It was a comprehensive overview of the prisoner work camp system that was developed in Russia, much earlier than the days of the USSR when it reached its zenith. This volume contains actual first person reports of experiences in these cam......more

Goodreads review by Doug on April 09, 2012

I would have given this five stars had it not been that the selections were so short. Amazing collection of excerpts from authors who had experienced the Soviet Gulag. While I have read a bit of Solzhenitsyn, I didn't even know of these other writers whom I will now explore. How people be so cruel o......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on July 27, 2011

Hard to read, hard to put down. These are true testaments to human strength and witnesses to human cruelty. I found this to be a very important book.......more

Goodreads review by Ishmael on January 02, 2023

Engaging, eye-opening and informative short (around 195 pages) collection of Gulag survivor accounts, Applebaum has selected a cross section of experiences and voices that give a shattering and sobering view. Essentially excerpts from larger biographical works, it provides a starting point into the......more

Goodreads review by Nate on April 07, 2023

If you have read books like Viktor Frankl's, A Man's Search for Meaning, and appreciated the raw and brutally honest look into Hitler's concentration camps, I'd recommend Applebaum's Gulag Voices too. Stalin's gulags were a uniquely twisted part of Russia's history. Important to know about the dark......more

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