The Gulag (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Applebaum
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: From the 1920’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: The Soviet Union
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Politics, Prisoners, Prisons, Socialism, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, Victims, Death or dying, Corruption, Captivity, 1990’s, Life and death, Torture, Totalitarianism, Soviet Union or Soviets, Hunger, Labor camps, Survival
- Locales: Soviet Union
With the publication of Nobel Prize laureate Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn’s Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956 (1973; The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, 1974), readers outside the Soviet Union became aware of the horrors perpetuated by Joseph Stalin and his successors. In the last decades of the twentieth century, others wrote of their camp experiences, confirming Solzhenitsyn’s damning litany of atrocities committed in the hundreds of work camps maintained in the Soviet Union from the early 1920’s until the 1980’s. In Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum goes beyond the work...
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