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 on-line 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.
ONE OF GQ's 50 BEST BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM OF THE 21st
CENTURY
“The most authoritative—and comprehensive—account of this Soviet
blight ever published by a Western writer.” —Newsweek
“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired
dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times
“An important book. . . . It is fervently to be hoped that people
will read Anne Applebaum’s excellent, tautly written, and very
damning history.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A titanic achievement: learned and moving and profound. . . . No
reader will easily forget Applebaum’s vivid accounts of the
horrible human suffering of the Gulag.” —National Review
“Lucid, painstakingly detailed, never sensational, it should have a
place on every educated reader’s shelves.” –Los Angeles Times
“Magisterial. . . . Certain to remain the definitive account of its
subject for years to come. . . . An immense achievement.” —The New
Criterion
“An excellent account of the rise and fall of the Soviet labor
camps between 1917 and 1986. . . . A splendid book.” —The New York
Review of Books
“Should become the standard history of one of the greatest evils of
the 20th 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
“[Applebaum’s] writing is powerful and incisive, but it achieves
this effect through simplicity and restraint rather than stylistic
flourish. . . . [An] admirable and courageous book.” –The
Washington Monthly
“Monumental . . . Applebaum uses her own formidable reporting
skills to construct a gripping narrative.” –Newsday
“Valuable. There is nothing like it in Russian, or in any other
language. It deserves to be widely read.” –Financial Times
“A book whose importance is impossible to exaggerate. . . .
Magisterial . . . Applebaum’s book, written with such quiet
elegance and moral seriousness, is a major contribution to curing
the amnesia that curiously seems to have affected broader public
perceptions of one of the two or three major enormities of the
twentieth century.” –Times Literary Supplement
“A truly impressive achievement . . . We should all be grateful to
[Applebaum].” –The Sunday Times (London)
“A chronicle of ghastly human suffering, a history of one of the
greatest abuses of power in the story of our species, and a
cautionary tale of towering moral significance . . . A magisterial
work, written in an unflinching style that moves as much as it
shocks, and that glistens with the teeming life and stinking
putrefaction of doomed men and rotten ideals.” –The Daily Telegraph
(London)
“No Western author until Anne Applebaum attempted to produce a
history of the Gulag based on the combination of eyewitness
accounts and archival records. The result is an impressively
thorough and detailed study; no aspect of this topic escapes her
attention. Well written, accessible…enlightening for both the
general reader and specialists.” —The New York Sun
“For the raw human experience of the camps, read Solzhenitsyn’s One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or Irina Ratushinskaya’s Grey is
the Color of Hope. For the scope, context, and the terrible extent
of the criminality, read this history.” —Chicago Tribune
More than a full-scale history of the Soviet Gulag, this work by the Spectator's deputy editor asks why it is so little remembered in both Russia and the West. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
ONE OF GQ's 50 BEST BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM OF THE
21st CENTURY
"The most authoritative-and comprehensive-account of this Soviet
blight ever published by a Western writer." -Newsweek
"A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired
dictatorships can be." -The New York Times
"An important book. . . . It is fervently to be hoped that
people will read Anne Applebaum's excellent, tautly written, and
very damning history." -The New York Times Book Review
"A titanic achievement: learned and moving and profound. . . . No
reader will easily forget Applebaum's vivid accounts of the
horrible human suffering of the Gulag." -National Review
"Lucid, painstakingly detailed, never sensational, it should have a
place on every educated reader's shelves." -Los Angeles
Times
"Magisterial. . . . Certain to remain the definitive
account of its subject for years to come. . . . An immense
achievement." -The New Criterion
"An excellent account of the rise and fall of the Soviet
labor camps between 1917 and 1986. . . . A splendid book." -The
New York Review of Books
"Should become the standard history of one of the greatest
evils of the 20th 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
"[Applebaum's] writing is powerful and incisive, but it achieves
this effect through simplicity and restraint rather than stylistic
flourish. . . . [An] admirable and courageous book." -The
Washington Monthly
"Monumental . . . Applebaum uses her own formidable reporting
skills to construct a gripping narrative." -Newsday
"Valuable. There is nothing like it in Russian, or in any other
language. It deserves to be widely read." -Financial
Times
"A book whose importance is impossible to exaggerate. . . .
Magisterial . . . Applebaum's book, written with such quiet
elegance and moral seriousness, is a major contribution to curing
the amnesia that curiously seems to have affected broader public
perceptions of one of the two or three major enormities of the
twentieth century." -Times Literary Supplement
"A truly impressive achievement . . . We should all be grateful to
[Applebaum]." -The Sunday Times (London)
"A chronicle of ghastly human suffering, a history of one of the
greatest abuses of power in the story of our species, and a
cautionary tale of towering moral significance . . . A magisterial
work, written in an unflinching style that moves as much as it
shocks, and that glistens with the teeming life and stinking
putrefaction of doomed men and rotten ideals." -The Daily
Telegraph (London)
"No Western author until Anne Applebaum attempted to produce a
history of the Gulag based on the combination of eyewitness
accounts and archival records. The result is an impressively
thorough and detailed study; no aspect of this topic escapes her
attention. Well written, accessible...enlightening for both the
general reader and specialists." -The New York Sun
"For the raw human experience of the camps, read Solzhenitsyn's
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or Irina
Ratushinskaya's Grey is the Color of Hope. For the scope,
context, and the terrible extent of the criminality, read this
history." -Chicago Tribune
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