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Gulag: A History
2003-05-26T06:00:08-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNzIzXC8yMDAzMDUyNjA2MDMxOTAwMV9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ==Anne Applebaum talked about her book Gulag: A History, published by Doubleday. Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union’s labor camps over 60 years. This is the first fully documented history of the gulag, drawn on newly accessible Soviet archives and scores of camp memoirs and interviews with survivors, which trace the gulag’s origins and expansion.
It describes how, largely under Stalin’s watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor--unprecedented in scope--gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of arrests, this type of prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. Ms. Applebaum also reflected on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust.
Anne Applebaum talked about her book Gulag: A History, published by Doubleday. Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union’s labor…
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Anne Applebaum talked about her book Gulag: A History, published by Doubleday. Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union’s labor camps over 60 years. This is the first fully documented history of the gulag, drawn on newly accessible Soviet archives and scores of camp memoirs and interviews with survivors, which trace the gulag’s origins and expansion.
It describes how, largely under Stalin’s watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor--unprecedented in scope--gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of arrests, this type of prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. Ms. Applebaum also reflected on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust. close
It describes how, largely under Stalin’s watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor--unprecedented in scope--gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of arrests, this type of prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. Ms. Applebaum also reflected on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust.
Anne Applebaum talked about her book Gulag: A History, published by Doubleday. Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union’s labor… read more
Anne Applebaum talked about her book Gulag: A History, published by Doubleday. Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union’s labor camps over 60 years. This is the first fully documented history of the gulag, drawn on newly accessible Soviet archives and scores of camp memoirs and interviews with survivors, which trace the gulag’s origins and expansion.
It describes how, largely under Stalin’s watch, a regulated, centralized system of prison labor--unprecedented in scope--gradually arose out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution. Fueled by waves of arrests, this type of prison labor came to underpin the Soviet economy. Ms. Applebaum also reflected on why the gulag does not loom as large in the Western imagination as, for instance, the Holocaust. close
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