Gulag

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“Can you describe this?”

And I said: “I can.”

Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been

her face . . .

—Anna Akhmatova, “Instead of a Preface: Requiem 1935–1940”

Acclaim for Anne Applebaum’s

GULAG

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize

“Should become the standard history of one of the greatest evils of the twentieth century.” —The Economist

“Thorough, engrossing. . . . A searing attack on the corruption and the viciousness that seemed to rule the system and a testimonial to the resilience of the Russian people. . . . Her research is impeccable.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“An affecting book that enables us at last to see the Gulag whole. . . . A valuable and necessary book.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Ambitious and well-documented. . . . Invaluable. . . . Applebaum methodically, and unflinchingly, provides a sense of what it was like to enter and inhabit the netherworld of the Gulag.” —The New Yorker

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