Gulag - Applebaum, Anne
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We know a great deal about the Nazi death camps, but almost nothing about the vast network of labour camps which were once scattered across Russia - from the White Sea to the Black Sea, and from the Arctic circle to the plains of Central Asia.
This work draws together the mass of memoirs published in Russia and digests the vast archival materials now available. The gulag had antecedents in Czarist Russia but took its modern form in the Soviet era. But it is wrong to believe that it came to an end with the Stalinist era.
Throughout the 70 years of the Soviet Union, the camps remained the…mehr

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We know a great deal about the Nazi death camps, but almost nothing about the vast network of labour camps which were once scattered across Russia - from the White Sea to the Black Sea, and from the Arctic circle to the plains of Central Asia.

This work draws together the mass of memoirs published in Russia and digests the vast archival materials now available. The gulag had antecedents in Czarist Russia but took its modern form in the Soviet era. But it is wrong to believe that it came to an end with the Stalinist era.

Throughout the 70 years of the Soviet Union, the camps remained the state`s ultimate weapon, serving the same purpose: to punish, to isolate and, above all, to frighten.

Autorenporträt
Anne Applebaum, geboren 1964 in Washington, D. C., ist Historikerin und Journalistin. Sie begann ihre Karriere 1988 als Korrespondentin des Economist in Warschau, von wo sie über den Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus berichtete. Heute ist sie Direktorin des Legatum-Instituts in London und schreibt als Kolumnistin für Slate und Washington Post. Für ihre publizistische Arbeit wurde sie mit dem Adolph Bentinck Prize for European Non-fiction ausgezeichnet, dem Duff-Cooper- und dem Pulitzer-Preis. Applebaum ist mit dem polnischen Autor und Außenminister Radek Sikorski verheiratet und lebt in Warschau.