Gulag kapak görseli

Gulag

A History

Önizleme
SINIRLI SÜRELİ TEKLİF

3 ay boyunca aylık £0,99

Bu fırsatı yakala
Teklif 29 Ocak 2026 tarihinde saat 23:59 GMT itibarıyla sona erer.
Diğer seçenekler

Gulag

Yazan: Anne Applebaum
Seslendiren: Laural Merlington
Bu fırsatı yakala

3 aydan sonra aylık 8,99 £. Aylık olarak iptal edilir. Teklif 29 Ocak 2026 tarihinde saat 23:59 GMT itibarıyla sona erer.

22,61£ karşılığında satın al

22,61£ karşılığında satın al

This Season's Biggest Deal | £0.99/mo for 3 months + £10 Audible bonus

£5.99/mo after 3 months - terms apply. Cancel monthly
Özet

Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2004

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 recreates 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 20th century.

©2007 Anne Applebaum (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
20th Century Eastern Europe Modern Politics & Government Russia World Sovyetler Birliği Sosyalizm Emperyalizm Soykırım Savaş Kapitalizm
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
Tüm yıldızlar
En alakalı
A fascinating book with excellent performance. A book to recommend to anyone, particularly to the younger generation.

A must read/listen book

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.

Wonderfully in-depth historical account of the Gulag period, covering every perceivable aspect. Thoroughly researched with plenty of first-hand accounts. Interesting opinions from the author, altbough occassional generalisations did not sit wholly comfortably.

Excellent, detailed history

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.

I read this book when my vision was ok. This reading is awful- wrecks a very important book.

Dreadful reading

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.

Who engaged the narrator? She can't pronounce any of the Russian words or names in the book. It's embarrassingly bad.

As for the content, it is generally fascinating and well-researched. It makes the argument quite strongly that there is a continuity between Lenin's approach and Stalin's. However conversely it insists that there's very little continuity with the Tsarist regime practices. I feel 1) that certainly Lenin's regime was violent and authoritarian, and established a pattern that paved the way for the Stalinist Gulag, but that there was both a quantitative and qualitative difference between the early Bolshevik repression and the Stalinist system, and 2) the practice of the repressive state in Russia does have a continuity between the Tsarist, Leninist, Stalinist and the Post communist Putinist system, even though of course the Stalinist gulag was the apogee. This seems obvious to me and saying so doesn't whitewash Stalin or indeed any of the other really bad governments that Russians have had to endure.

Narrator can't pronounce Russian names and words!!

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.

Conflict with Russia, the EU in conflict with Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland, all can be traced in part to the Soviet Union love of concentration camps.

Want to understand Russia and Central Europe?

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.

Daha fazla değerlendirme gör