Gulag_ A History - Anne Applebaum [0]
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Praise
Introduction
PART ONE - THE ORIGINS OF THE GULAG, 1917—1939
Chapter 1 - BOLSHEVIK BEGINNINGS
Chapter 2 - “THE FIRST CAMP OF THE GULAG”
Chapter 3 - 1929: THE GREAT TURNING POINT
Chapter 4 - THE WHITE SEA CANAL
Chapter 5 - THE CAMPS EXPAND
Chapter 6 - THE GREAT TERROR AND ITS AFTERMATH
PART TWO - LIFE AND WORK IN THE CAMPS
Chapter 7 - ARREST
Chapter 8 - PRISON
Chapter 9 - TRANSPORT, ARRIVAL, SELECTION
Chapter 10 - LIFE IN THE CAMPS
ZONA: WITHIN THE BARBED WIRE
REZHIM: RULES FOR LIVING
BARAKI: LIVING SPACE
BANYA: THE BATHHOUSE
STOLOVAYA: THE DINING HALL
Chapter11 - WORK IN THE CAMPS
RABOCHAYA ZONA: THE WORK ZONE
KVCh: THE CULTURAL-EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
Chapter 12 - PUNISHMENT AND REWARD
SHIZO: PUNISHMENT CELLS
POCHTOVYI YASHCHIK: POST OFFICE BOX
DOM SVIDANII: THE HOUSE OF MEETINGS
Chapter 13 - THE GUARDS
Chapter 14 - THE PRISONERS
URKI: THE CRIMINALS
KONTRIKI AND BYTOVYE: THE POLITICALS AND THE ORDINARY PRISONERS
Chapter 15 - WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Chapter 16 - THE DYING
Chapter 17 - STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL
TUFTA: PRETENDING TO WORK
PRIDURKI: COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION
SANCHAST: HOSPITALS AND DOCTORS
“ORDINARY VIRTUES”
Chapter 18 - REBELLION AND ESCAPE
PART THREE - THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CAMP–INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, 1940—1986
Chapter 19 - THE WAR BEGINS
Chapter 20 - “STRANGERS”
Chapter 21 - AMNESTY—AND AFTERWARD
Chapter 22 - THE ZENITH OF THE CAMP–INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Chapter 23 - THE DEATH OF STALIN
Chapter 24 - THE ZEKS’ REVOLUTION
Chapter 25 - THAW—AND RELEASE
Chapter 26 - THE ERA OF THE DISSIDENTS
Chapter 27 - THE 1980s: SMASHING STATUES
Appendix - HOW MANY?
NOTES
Epilogue - MEMORY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXT AND ILLUSTRATION PERMISSIONS
GLOSSARY
About the Author
Also by Anne Applebaum
Copyright Page
This Book Is Dedicated to
Those Who Described What Happened
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months
waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the
crowd identified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue
from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before.
Now she started out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a
whisper (everyone whispered there):
“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
“[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.” —The Times Literary Supplement