Gulag: A History Of The Soviet Camps

Description

The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witness to one of history's most terrible crimes.

Author description

Anne Applebaum studied Russian at Yale and International Relations and East European politics at the LSE and St Antony's College, Oxford. She has been a writer and editor at The Economist and deputy editor at the Spectator, as well as Warsaw correspondent for the Boston Globe and the Independent. She is now a columnist and a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post.