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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... read more
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- Josef Stalin: Add a description of this character.
- Ende
- Kolyma
- Alexander
- Mann
- Tage
- Wasser
- Der Gulag
- Polen
- Moskau
- Der Verfasserin
- Arbeiter
- Weise
- Boden
- Frau
- Jewgenia Ginsburg
- Geld
- Krieg
- Ivanova
- Gorki
- Lage
- A. M.
- Kopf
- Tod
- Kanal
- Beria
- Macht
- Rolle
- Gruppe
- Herling-grudzinski
- Roginski
- Juden
- Recht
- Magadan
- Zelle
- Wald
- Martin
- Brodski
- Opfer
- Häftlingen
- Blick
- Iwan Denissowitsch
- Robert
- Lew Rasgon
- Rossi
- Solowezki
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Sowjetunion
- Berlin
- New York
- Frankfurt
- Russland
- Russia
- Essen
- Ukraine
- Norilsk
- Workuta
- Solschenizyn
- Lubjanka
- Leningrad
- Kasachstan
- Uchtpetschlag
- Taiga
- Paris
- Verbannung
- Verhaftung
- Kokurin
- Lagpunkt
- Soviet Union
- Gorbatschow
- Ussr
- Usa
- Hungerstreik
- Berdinskich
- Formen
- Tschuchin
- Sprawotschnik
- Chruschtschow
- Vorkuta
- Mordowien
- Leiden
- Kusnezow
- Steplag
- Lohn
- Katyn
- St. Petersburg
- Minlag
- Uchta
- Strafvollzug
- Semskow
- Petschora
First Sentence edit
In the years 1917, two waves of revolution rolled across Russia, sweeping Imperial Russian society aside as if it were destroying so many houses of cards.
Table of Contents edit
Part 1 - The Origins of the Gulag, 1917 - 1939
1 - Bolshevike Beginnings
2 - 'The First Camp of the Gulag'
3 - 1929: The Great Turning Point
4 - The white sea Canal
5 - The Great Terror and Its Aftermath
Part 2 - Life and Work in the Camps
7 - Arrest
8 - Prison
9 - Transport, Arrival, Selection
10 - Life in the Camps
11 - Work in the Camps
12 - Punishment and Reward
13 - The Guards
14 - The Prisoners
15 - Women and Children
16 - The Dying
17 - Strategies of Survival
18 - Rebellion and Escape
Part 3 - The Rise and Fall of the Camp-Industrial Complex, 1940 - 1986
19 - The War Begins
20 - 'Strangers'
21 - Amnesty - and Afterwards
22 - The Zenith of the camp-Industrial Complex
23 - The Death of Stalin
24 - The Zeks' Revolution
25 - Thaw - and Release
26 - The Era of the Dissidents
27 - The 1980s: Smashing Statues
Epilogue: Memory
Appendix: How Many?
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Text and Illustrations Permissions
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anne Applebaum (Author)
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Page Count: 736
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Page Count: 736
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (2004: General Nonfiction)
- Duff Cooper Prize (2003)
- Samuel Johnson Prize (Finalist, 2004, Shortlist)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2003: General Nonfiction)
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- Dewey: 365.45094709041
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