Gulag by Anne Applebaum - 2003: A History of the Soviet Camps

ANNE APPLEBAUM

GULAG

A HISTORY OF THE

SOVIET CAMPS

ALLEN LANE

London

2003

DESCRIPTION

First Edition

Book measures 240mm x 165mm approximately.

Hardback book with dust jacket. Number of photo images and illustrations. 610pp.

CONDITION

In very good condition. The book is strong and tight. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with just a little minor creasing to edges. Internally the pages are superbly clean throughout.

Please always refer to photo images for a clearer indication of condition.

INTERESTING

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born 1964) is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize in April 2004 for Gulag, a non-fiction book covering the history of the Soviet Gulag system. It was written by American author Anne Applebaum and published in 2003 by Doubleday. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle prize and for the National Book Award.

The book charts the history of the Gulag organization from its beginnings under Vladimir Lenin and the Solovki prison camp to the construction of the White Sea Canal through its explosive growth in the Great Purge and the Second World War, and tracks its diminution following the death of Joseph Stalin and its final closure in the 1980s. A large portion of the book is devoted to covering lives and deaths of camp inmates, including their arrest, interrogation, trial, transportation, the details of the rigors of their working and living conditions, the privations of starvation and disease, and the circumstances of their deaths. The book draws heavily on Soviet-era archives and on the diaries and writings of camp survivors.