Gulag A History by Anne Applebaum

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. The Gulaga vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisonerswas a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately recreate