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	Anne Applebaum -- Gulag: A History
		Applebaum's book weighs in heavily in support of Solzhenitsyn on almost every point, and her account is backed not only by a careful use of the vast memoir literature but also by a thorough mining of the long-closed Soviet archives.
		Anne Applebaum's 677-page "Gulag: A History," the most authoritative--and comprehensive--account of this Soviet blight ever published by a Western writer, puts the Gulag in its rightful, horrifying place.
		Applebaum bases her work on careful research, drawing on memoirs, interviews and recently released official documents....With great skill, she re- creates the daily details of camp life - the cold, the dirt, the disease, the obsession with food.
	www.anneapplebaum.com /gulag/gulag.html (0 words)

	GULAG: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET CAMPS, by Anne Applebaum
		Applebaum needs all of her 600 pages of text to describe the rise and fall of the Gulag, along with the repressive prison systems that preceded and replaced it.
		One of Applebaum's main achievements is her demonstration that the Gulag prisoners were not simply helpless victims -- in fact, in many ways the nature of the camps at a particular time was determined as much by the population of prisoners as by the intentions of the authorities.
		Applebaum's chapter on the journey to Magadan in the far east of the Soviet Union is harrowing: the transit camps and the boats were simply diabolical; the mass rapes and murders beggar belief.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /041003.html (15451 words)

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