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Gulag : a history
Record details
- ISBN: 0767900561 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xl, 677 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Soviet Union Politics and government Prisons Soviet Union History Forced labor Soviet Union History Concentration camps Soviet Union History |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | 365.45 A648g 2003 (Text) | 33126009760020 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post.
ANNE APPLEBAUM was born in Washington, D.C., received a bachelorâs degree from Yale, and studied at Saint Antonyâs College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics on a Marshall scholarship. In 1988, she moved to Poland to work for the Economist, and a few years later became foreign editor, then deputy editor, of the Spectator. Her work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and other British and American publications. She is the author of one previous book, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe. After living for more than fifteen years in Europe, she joined the editorial board of the Washington Post in 2002 and now lives in Washington, D.C.