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Gulag
Gulag: A History | Anne Applebaum
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 Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. 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.
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coffees
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Finally got back to reading this monster. I've decided against taking notes on words because I wasn't advancing at all. I understand a lot of the words but it's hard for me to pronounce many of them so I'm just annotating the book #spanish

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EyesOnly34
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Reading about such a happy topic lately. Insane barbarism.

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egroig
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If any detailed history of Soviet gulags can be described as "readable," it's Anne Applebaum's.

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LauraJ
Gulag: A History | Anne Applebaum
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Anna Karenina is around somewhere too. #ilikebigbooks #booktober

PNWBookseller85 Norton Anthologies! Biggest books on my shelf too. Are you a fellow English major? I'm sure there are many of us on Litsy. 8y
LauraJ @BeckyMerilatt No, I took it for fun while I was in nursing school. I was the only non-English major in the class and that B kept me from graduating magma cum laude. Totally worth it! 8y
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GoneFishing
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Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.

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MarilynPF For reasons I don't completely understand, I have always been drawn to books about Russia, from the Czars, the Revolution, the Soviet Union, up until today. This book was on my daughter's wish list and I had to buy it for ME! Just started it, but it good. Very detailed with stories of survivors. 9y
MarilynPF I'm still reading Gulag: A History. It is so detailed that it's hard to read it fast--you'd miss something. I am finding it to be a thorough explanation of how the Soviet system of arrests & prison modernized the north eastern parts of that vast territory by building roads & railroad lines. 9y
MarilynPF In the middle of reading this book, we moved across the country. But I can say it was a great read for me, but it is so detailed that only those truly interested in the topic will be likely to finish it. Very well researched. 8y
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