Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum
***Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction***
***Winner of the 2003 Duff Cooper Prize (for nonfiction)***
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“To see what Stalin did to Russia, the best book is Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History. Based on detailed archival research, she tells of the sudden arrests, the sham trials, the gruelling transportation, the hardships of labour camps, starvation and disease – and also the way in which modern Russia is unwilling to come to terms with them” Read more...
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