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VERLAGSTEXT: / / This landmark book uncovers in detail one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. / We know a great deal about the Nazi death camps, but almost nothing about the vast network of labour camps which were once scattered across Russia - from the White Sea to the Black Sea, and from the Arctic circle to the plains of Central Asia. This work draws together the mass of memoirs published in Russia and digests the vast archival materials now available. The gulag had antecedents in Czarist Russia but took its modern form in the Soviet era. But it is wrong to believe that it came to an end with the Stalinist era. Throughout the 70 years of the Soviet Union, the camps remained the state's ultimate weapon, serving the same purpose: to punish, to isolate and, above all, to frighten. / Review: The Soviet concentration camp system, known as the gulag, existed for much longer than the Nazi system, holding as many as 18 million prisoners at its height between 1918 and 1953. Yet it has always lacked the scholarly and popular attention that the Nazi system has received. In this enormous and groundbreaking work, Anne Applebaum attempts to change this; she has produced an extraordinarily well-researched overview of the camps, substantiated by archive resources, memoirs and interviews with survivors. The thematically arranged central section describes life in the camps (including food, health, cultural events, work, punishment, family and death). It also details the experiences of prisoners such as women and children, the guards, the workers, and those who were dying. The descriptions of terror and misery are as painful as anything in Solzhenitsyn, but Applebaum also describes how the inmates of the camps tried to make their lives more bearable, by methods that included literature and music, but also deliberately injuring themselves in order to escape the backbreaking labour and inevitable punishments. She puts their suffering into context by comparing the gulag with the Nazi concentration camps and the experiences of ordinary Soviet people - who also endured starvation, repression and fear. The other sections of the book provide a framework by describing the origin, history and development of the camps, from their Tsarist origins onwards. Applebaum makes frequent use of poetry, drawings, memoirs and archive sources, adding the powerful voices of individuals to her narrative of events. Timely and compelling, this book is a great achievement. (Kirkus UK) / / AUS DEM INHALT: / / Part I: The Origins of the Gulag, 1917-1939 / 1. Bolshevik Beginnings | 27 / 2. "The First Camp of the Gulag" | 40 / 3. 1929: The Great Turning Point | 59 / 4. The White Sea Canal | 73 / 5. The Camps Expand | 86 / 6. The Great Terror and Its Aftermath | 103 / / Part II: Life and Work in the Camps / 7. Arrest | 127 / 8. Prison | 148 / 9. Transport, Arrival, Selection | 159 / 10. Life in the Camps | 179 / 11. Work in the Camps | 207 / 12. Punishment and Reward | 229 / 13. The Guards | 241 / 14. The Prisoners | 261 / 15. Women and Children | 284 / 16. The Dying | 307 / 17. Strategies of Survival | 316 / 18. Rebellion and Escape | 355 / / Part III: The rise and fall of the camp-industrial complex, 1940-1986 / 19. The War Begins | 373 / 20. "Strangers" | 381 / 21. Amnesty - and Afterwards | 402 / 22. The Zenith of the Camp-Industrial Complex | 414 / 23. The Death of Stalin | 428 / 24. The Zeks' Revolution | 435 / 25. Thaw - and Release | 454 / 26. The Era of the Dissidents | 471 / 27. The 1980: Smashing Statues | 492 / / Epilogue: Memory | 503 / Appendix: How Many? | 515 /