Gulag - A History - Anne Applebaum torrent

Category: History
Language: EnglishKeywords: History Soviet Union Communism

Written by Anne Applebaum
Read by Laural Merlington
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 80 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 27 hours and 45 minutes

Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2004

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 recreates 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 20th century.