Gulag: a History

Informationen zum Autor Anne Applebaum is the author of Gulag: A History , which won the Pulitzer Prize, of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 , which won the Cundill Prize, of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine which won the Lionel Gelber and Duff Cooper prizes, and of the best-selling Twilight of Democracy . She is a columnist for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University. She divides her time between Britain, Poland and the USA Klappentext Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History , which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain , which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. She is Professor of Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs, London School of Economics, and a columnist for the Washington Post . She divides her time between Britain and Poland. Zusammenfassung Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Applebaum, Applebaum Anne
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.04.2004
• EAN: 9780140283105
• ISBN: 978-0-14-028310-5
• No. of pages: 610
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Sowjetunion (ehemalige) : Geschichte, Gulag, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Marxism & Communism, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution