作者简介

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 online 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

内容简介

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.

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  • Grantorino
    纳粹之恶,举世皆知,而与之不相伯仲的共产主义之恶,或说斯大林之恶,无论俄国人自己,还是西方,都还不情愿面对。作者力图表现列宁执政到苏东巨变这近七十年时间里,这个被缩称为“古拉格”的奴工体系,如何管理、折磨包括作奸犯科的罪犯,和以各种名义未经审判或刑讯逼供投入这个体系的所谓“政治犯”。政治犯们所受的折磨和最终无名地死亡,其惨已经无法用言语形容。作者耙梳史料、回忆录、公开文件,最终以史家般谨严的文字一桩桩描述出来,读来如入地狱。而读完以后,我简直如同脱胎换骨,看世界的眼光都不同了。06-03
  • 碎碎评评
    穿越古拉格这一页需要太多勇气,大量的文献回忆录和访谈展现出的罕见严谨足以媲美学术著作。古拉格之于苏联一如文革之于我们,必须要不断被提起被研究被质问,只有这样,前人方能忏悔,今人才能反思,后人不致重复。借用书中一句话,杀人者还活着。杀人者永远活着。10-15
  • Sihlhof
    http://www.thegulag.org/ 05-23
  • Chris
    虽然这段历史已经过去了几十年,合上书后,仍然感受到了一股悲凉,尤其是在当前的世界环境之下。这本书算得上是一部关于古拉格的百科全书式著作,涵盖了古拉格历史的方方面面,也可以说是近些年来欧美非虚构作品中的经典。同样是记者,同样是记录那个非人的年代,相比阿列克谢耶维奇,我更喜欢安妮的作品。这本书让我想起了很多,例如杨显惠的系列作品,严歌苓的《陆犯焉识》,还有上个月刚读完的《长乐路》里的王明。可惜的是,在灾难发生的现场,掌权者仍是几十年前古拉格始作俑者的继承者,这段历史在当地反而显得欲盖弥彰,不管是官方还是民间,态度都十分暧昧。如果要选这本书的精华,无疑是开头的“前言”和结尾的“回忆”,这两个部分凝聚了作者多年的心血,既有洞见,又有真挚的情感,值得反复细度。07-31
  • Prunus d
    震撼的历史。没人翻译么,这么精彩的一本书……11-10

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