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Pulitzer Prize, Basic Nonfiction, 2004 The Gulag - a massive selection of Soviet attention camps that presented millions of political and legal prisoners - was a system of repression and consequence that terrorized the whole contemporary society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In such a magisterial and acclaimed background, Anne Applebaum supplies the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its development under Stalin, to its collapse in the time of glasnost. Applebaum intimately recreates what life was like in the camps and links these to the larger background of the Soviet Union. Immediately named a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship or grant, Gulag is an essential book for anybody who wishes to comprehend the history of the 20th hundred years.

Category: Communism & Socialism