Gulag
Subtitle: A History
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: April 29, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780767900560
Subjects: Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Prisons; Penology; Prison Systems; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; Soviet Union; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Political History; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Forced labor; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Modern - 20th Century; Concentration camps; History
First sentence: IN THE YEARS 1917, two waves of revolution rolled across Russia, sweeping Imperial Russian society aside as if it were destroying so many houses of cards.