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Loading... Gulag: Historia de los campos de concentración soviéticos / A History (Spanish Edition) (original 2003; edition 2004)by Anne Applebaum (Author)
Work InformationGulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2003)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Extremely thoroughly researched, documented, organized and structured (though I disliked the chosen structure - on themes rather than chronologically, because it leads to reiterations of the same periods). But dry and often boring, failing to capture the most important element of the Gulag: the scope of individual human suffering, lost here in a too ”from above”, too large and statistical picture. PS: I recommend you avoid the Penguin Books edition, it is printed in tiny-tiny crowded letters, on very thin paper, with ink that gets on the fingers. Rannsókn Anne Appelbaum á sovéska Gúlaginu er ítarleg og hún miðlar henni vel. Hún segir frá fyrstu markmiðum ráðamanna í Sovétríkjunum varðandi fangabúðirnar og ringulreiðinni sem oft á tíðum ríkti í starfsemi þeirra. Skeytingarleysi fangabúðastjóra og fangavarða sem kostuðu þúsundir mannslífa og miskunnarleysi ráðamanna sem voru staðráðnir í því að láta þrælkunarbúðirnar skila efnahagslegum gróða. Maður er hreinlega miður sín yfir mannfallinu og miskunnarleysinu sem viðgekkst. Þetta er margverðlaunuð bók og nauðsynleg lesning hverjum sem vill kynna sér aðstæður í Sovétríkjunum á síðustu öld.
Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History is the first volume that attempts to give a detailed and fairly comprehensive narrative of the origin, purpose, workings, and reality of the system based both on the memoirs of those who lived through and survived the camps and on the now-available archive documents in Russia. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAwardsDistinctions
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (22)A fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance. Applebaum also examines how life was lived within this shadow country: how prisoners worked, how they ate, where they lived, how they died, how they survived. She examines their guards and their jailers, the horrors of transportation in empty cattle cars, the strange nature of Soviet arrests and trials, the impact of World War II, the relations between different national and religious groups, and the escapes, as well as the extraordinary rebellions that took place in the 1950s. She concludes by examining the disturbing question why the Gulag has remained relatively obscure, in the historical memory of both the former Soviet Union and the West. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)365.45094709041Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Penal & related institutions Institutions for specific types of inmates Political prisonersLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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I have mixed feelings about the book itself and, all in all, it simply feels that it is not the work of a professional historian, it lacks balance. ( )