"GULAG is a monumental achievement, a
masterpiece of Soviet history, indeed, one of the great historical
epics of our time. With intense moral clarity, Anne Applebaum
exposes not only the full horror of these slave labor camps --
Russia''s legacy of state-sponsored genocide -- but the equally
shocking, global amnesia towards the millions who died in
them."
-Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten
Holocaust of World War II
"Combining meticulous research with myriad acco
內容簡介:
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.
關於作者:
Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board
of the Washington Post. A graduate of Yale and a Marshall
Scholar, she has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the
Spectator London, as the Warsaw correspondent for the
Economist, and as a columnist for the on-line magazine
Slate, as well as for several British newspapers. Her work
has also appeared in the New York Review of Books,
Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal,
among many other publications. She lives in Washington, D.C., with
her husband, Radek Sikorski, and two children.