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Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer-winning history of the Soviet camp system from Lenin to Gorbachev: origins, daily life, death, legacy. The scholarly complement to Solzhenitsyn.
Read it if…
you want the full documented history.
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Skip it if…
you want testimony; see Solzhenitsyn or Ginzburg.
Try instead: Iron Curtain →
Three things you will actually use
- The camps were an economy.
- Eighteen million passed through.
- Memory is unfinished.
Do this first
Read Part Two on life and work in the camps.
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Applebaum's Gulag.
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