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Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
Anne Applebaum
(Allen Lane/Penguin)
This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail
one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the
vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the
deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only
major history in any language to draw together the mass of
memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published
in Russia and the West. Applebaum examines why the Gulag
has remained relatively obscure in the historical memory
of both the former Soviet Union and the West – and
argues that our grasp of twentieth-century history will be
incomplete unless we come to terms with it.
Anne Applebaum was born in Washington, DC in 1964. She
studied Russian history and literature at Yale and International
Relations at the London School of Economics and St. Anthony’s
College, Oxford. She began working as a journalist in 1988,
when she moved to Poland to become the Warsaw correspondent
for the Economist. She eventually covered the collapse of
communism across Central and Eastern Europe, writing for
a wide range of newspapers and magazines. She has been a
writer at the Economist, foreign and deputy editor at the
Spectator and columnist for the Evening Standard. In 2002
she returned to Washington, where she is now a columnist
and a member of the editorial board of the Washington
Post.
She lives in Washington with her husband and two children.
Publicist: Sarah Christie, Allen Lane 020 7010 4989
sarah.christie@penguin.co.uk
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