作者简介

Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. A graduate of Yale and a Marshall Scholar, she has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist, and as a columnist for the online magazine Slate, as well as for several British newspapers. Her work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Radek Sikorski, and two children

内容简介

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

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豆瓣评论

  • Geo
    4.5 一个月+终于读完。。虽然没有太多的surprise, 但是该有的细节一个都不会漏。2021-10-08
  • Humphrey
    每个人都应该读一读。2019-10-28
  • timeregister
    英文版。封控期间读完本书,别是风味。对Gulag非常全面翔实的记录,从起源、发展、扩张直到最终的消亡,各种囚犯的来源和构成,运作形式,营里的生活、劳作,非人的衣食住行,艰难求存,内斗,人性的泯灭,逃亡,反抗,惩罚,Gulag的方方面面都有写到。如果要挑一本书了解Gulag,非本书莫属。作者综合各类数字估算,1929至1953年,有1800万苏联人在Gulag来来去去,而forced laborers的数字更高,达2870万。其中死亡人数,基于档案资料的不完全数字是275万,但这个数字肯定是不准的,实际人数远远不止。无论如何,数字毕竟冷冰冰,其中每一条生命,都应当得到尊重,否则大时代之下的个体悲剧命运可能反复上演。历史不可重来,历史永劫回归。愿那恐怖,终会远离我们而去。2022-05-11

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