Gulag A History of the Soviet Camps

Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp 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.|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.|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.