Der Gulag

A brutal legacy of the Soviet Union: The harrowing story of a crime against humanity, awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

It is one of the darkest chapters in the history of the Soviet Union: the Gulag, a vast, centrally controlled system unprecedented in its scope for the exploitation of forced labor. How did it develop from the chaos of the revolutionary period? What significance did forced labor and the Gulag hold for the Soviet system? What was life like in the camps?

Renowned American journalist Anne Applebaum explores these questions in her book. Drawing on extensive source material from Soviet archives that has only recently been made available to the public, as well as countless prisoner memoirs and conversations with survivors, the author traces the Gulag system from its origins to its dissolution in the 1980s, giving a voice to the victims.

Features: includes numerous illustrations.