Corpus
Gulag: A History (GULAG)
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Anne Applebaum's 'Gulag' is a detailed history of Soviet penal camps from the Lenin era to the Gorbachev era. Drawing on archival documents, interviews, memoirs, and historical works, the author not only reveals the enormous role the Gulag system played in the politics and economy of the USSR but also recreates, in meticulous detail, a picture of the daily lives of prisoners. Anne Applebaum was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book 'Gulag.'
Publisher: Corpus
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Language: Russian
ISBN: 978-5-170-85229-1
ISBN (Barcode): 9785170852291
Meet The Author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Isayevich (Isaakievich) Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer, playwright, publicist, poet, and public and political figure who lived and worked in the USSR, Switzerland, the United States, and Russia. A dissident who, for several decades (the 1960s–1980s), actively spoke out against communist ideas, the political system of the USSR, and the policies of its authorities.
In addition to fictional literary works, which usually addressed pressing sociopolitical issues, he gained wide recognition for his literary and journalistic works on the history of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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