Gulag: A HistoryKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18 Δεκ 2007 - 736 σελίδες PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history 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. “A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times 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. 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. |
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The First Camp of the Gulag | 18 |
1929 The Great Turning Point | 41 |
The White Sea Canal | 58 |
The Camps Expand | 73 |
The Great Terror and Its Aftermath 921 | 92 |
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CAMP | 114 |
LIFE AND WORK IN THE CAMPS | 119 |
Strategies of Survival | 344 |
Rebellion and Escape | 390 |
The War Begins | 411 |
Strangers | 420 |
Amnesty and Afterward | 445 |
The Zenith of the CampIndustrial Complex | 460 |
The Death of Stalin | 476 |
The Zeks Revolution | 484 |
Arrest | 121 |
Prison | 146 |
Transport Arrival Selection | 159 |
Life in the Camps | 183 |
Work in the Camps | 216 |
Punishment and Reward | 242 |
The Guards | 256 |
The Prisoners | 280 |
Women and Children | 307 |
The Dying | 334 |
Thawand Release | 506 |
The Era of the Dissidents | 527 |
The 1980s Smashing Statues | 552 |
Memory | 564 |
How Many? | 578 |
Notes | 587 |
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Glossary | 655 |
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