The history of the Soviet camp system, told through the prism of executioners and victims.

Anne Applebaum's book is not only a complete, based on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, history of the Soviet camp system in development, from the moment of creation to 1918?m to the mid-eighties. No less carefully than the chronology and geography of the Gulag, the author tries to restore the logic of the executioners and victims, to understand what made them kill and what helped them survive. Applebaum gives the floor to Russians and Americans, Poles and Jews, communists and anti-communists who have passed through the camps, and their testimonies add up to a picture of incredible integrity and impact. This is a detailed description of the world of the zone with its laws and unspoken rules, a special language and hierarchy. “Anne Applebaum Gulag was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and translated into dozens of languages.

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© Anne Applebaum, 2003

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© L. Motylev, translation into Russian, 2015

© A. Bondarenko, design, layout, 2015

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