Gulag: A History
New York: Doubleday, 2003. First. Hardcover. [9.5x6.5 in] xl, 677 pp. brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine, 33 black and white photos. Book is very good, some soil and staining at edges, dust jacket very good, unclipped.
From the publisher: "Anne Applebaum has now undertaken, for the first time, a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system . . . The Gulag was first put in place in 1918 after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, Stalin personally decided to expand the camp system, both to use forced labor to accelerate Soviet industrialization and to exploit the natural resources of the country's barely inhabitable far northern regions. By the end of 1930s, labor camps could be found in all twelve of the Soviet Union 's time zones."
The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and was nominated for the National Book Award. It was acclaimed in reviews published by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Guardian. Applebaum is a journalist whose work has appeared in Foreign Affairs and the Wall Street Journal, She has worked as an editor at the Washington Post, the Spectator, the Economist, and elsewhere. The book endures as an important contribution to Arctic scholarship on the history of the Soviet-era prison camps and their role in Stalin's attempt to industrialize the Arctic. Very Good / Very Good. Item #38
ISBN: 9780767900560
Price: $40.00