by Anne Applebaum

Author Information: Columnist and member of the board at the Washington Post, frequent editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal. Has contributed at many other publications. 

Book Recognition: winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

Book Description (from Powell's, linked below): "The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's epic oral history of the Soviet camps, The Gulag Archipelago. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, dozens of memoirs and new studies covering aspects of that system have been published in Russia and the West. Using these new resources as well as her own original historical research, Anne Applebaum has now undertaken, for the first time, a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. It is an epic feat of investigation and moral reckoning that places the Gulag where it belongs: at the center of our understanding of the troubled history of the twentieth century."

Dan's Comments: I love almost everything this woman has to say about Eastern Europe and politics in the region.

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