Gulag : a history / Anne Applebaum.
Applebaum, Anne, 1964-
2003
HV8964.S65 A67 2003 (Mapit)
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Title Gulag : a history / Anne Applebaum.
Author Applebaum, Anne, 1964-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0767900561 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Doubleday, 2003.
Language English
Description 677 p., [16] p . of plates : ill., maps, ports ; 25 cm.
Call Number HV8964.S65 A67 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 365/.45/094709041
Summary A fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance. Applebaum also examines how life was lived within this shadow country: how prisoners worked, how they ate, where they lived, how they died, how they survived. She examines their guards and their jailers, the horrors of transportation in empty cattle cars, the strange nature of Soviet arrests and trials, the impact of World War II, the relations between different national and religious groups, and the escapes, as well as the extraordinary rebellions that took place in the 1950s. She concludes by examining the disturbing question why the Gulag has remained relatively obscure, in the historical memory of both the former Soviet Union and the West.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards Pulitzer Prize, 2004
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I : Origins of the Gulag, 1917-1939
Bolshevik beginnings ; First camp of the Gulag ; 1929 : the great turning point ; White Sea Canal ; Camps expand ; Great Terror and its aftermath
Part II : Life and work in the camps
Arrest ; Prison ; Transport, arrival, selection ; Life in the camps ; Work in the camps ; Punishment and reward ; Guards ; Prisoners ; Women and children ; Dying ; Strategies of survival ; Rebellion and escape
Part III : Rise and fall of the camp-industrial complex, 1940-1986
War begins ; Strangers ; Amnesty
and afterward ; Zenith of the camp-industrial complex ; Death of Stalin ; Zeks' revolution ; Thaw
and release ; Era of the dissidents ; 1980s : smashing statues
Epilogue : Memory
Appendix : How many?

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