- Politics and government, Concentration camps, Prisons, Forced labor
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.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Anne Applebaum
- First published
- May 31, 2004
- Pages
- 672
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Penguin Books, Limited, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, English, heb
- ISBN
- 9780141975269
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“IN THE YEARS 1917, two waves of revolution rolled across Russia, sweeping Imperial Russian society aside as if it were destroying so many houses of cards.”
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American and naturalized-Polish journalist and historian. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.
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