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Gulag Voices: An Anthology

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Description for Gulag Voices: An Anthology Paperback. A collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. It includes the personal stories of figures such as renowned literary scholar Dmitri Likhachev; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate labourers; and, American citizen Alexander Dolgun. Editor(s): Applebaum, Anne. Translator(s): Miller, Jane Ann. Series: Annals of Communism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.

A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made it possible to write the history of this notorious concentration camp system, documents tell only one side of the story. Gulag Voices now fills in the other half.

The backgrounds of the writers reflect the extraordinary diversity of the Gulag itself. Here are the personal stories of ... Read more

A vital addition to the literature of this era,annotated for a generation that no longer remembers the Soviet Union, Gulag Voices will inform, interest, and inspire, offering a source for reflection on human nature itself.

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Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Annals of Communism
Condition
New
Weight
223g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300177831
SKU
V9780300177831
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About Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum is Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction as well as numerous other awards. She lives in Warsaw, Poland.

Reviews for Gulag Voices: An Anthology
“The power of Gulag Voices is not only to remind us of the horrors of the Soviet Union’s corrective labour institutions and to honour those who were incarcerated there. It is also to illuminate the human consequences that ensue when any state’s legal system fails to recognise the human rights of prisoners.”—Wendy Slater, Times Literary Supplement
Wendey Slater
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