A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne ApplebaumAnne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presen
Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of this dark chapter in history?and?presents a collection of the writings of?survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although?the openi
"This is an engrossing book that lets the reader hear raw voices from the Gulag. It is at once fascinating, revealing, and sobering. Highly recommended."---Hiroaki Kuromiya, Professor of History, Indi
After the publication in 1962 of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began receiving, and would continue to receive throughout his life, testimonies from fellow survivors of
Survivors remember the back-breaking labor, beatings, inadequate food and clothing, and institutionalized torture of the concentration camps of communist Bulgaria in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Th