Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps - Rilegato

Applebaum, Anne

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0713993227 ISBN 13: 9780713993226

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2003

Riassunto

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. Thisbook is the first to draw together the mass of memoirs published in Russia and digest 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 seventy 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0713993227
• ISBN 13: 9780713993226
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 624
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile