Anne Applebaum

Broschiertes Buch

Gulag

A History of the Soviet Camps

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 610
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780140283105
• ISBN-10: 0140283102
• Artikelnr.: 12564504