Anne Applebaum "Gulag A History of the Soviet Camps."

This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of criminal Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. "Gulag" is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West. Using these, as well as her own original research in NKVD archives and interviews with survivors, Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. It is a gigantic feat of investigation, synthesis and moral reckoning. The Gulag―a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners―was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of criminal Soviet communism. In this acclaimed history Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

First Anchor Books Edition. Illustrated. 2004.

New book. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing.

See also: Michael Sacks, Jerry G Pankhurst "Understanding Soviet Society."