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New Releases by Anne ApplebaumAnne Applebaum is the author of Gulag / Gulag, a History (2025), Autocratie(s) (2025), Autocracia S.A. (2024), Autocrazie (2024), Autokrati AB : diktatorerna som vill styra världen (2024).
release date: Nov 04, 2025
***Premio de Periodismo de El Mundo y Premio Francisco Cerecedo de Periodismo 2021*** Una extensa y detallada historia del origen y el desarrollo de los Gulags soviéticos y su herencia hasta la actualidad. A partir de estudios, memorias editadas tras la caída de la URSS y algunos archivos que se mantuvieron ocultos durante décadas, Anne Applebaum realiza en este libro una reconstrucción histórica del origen y la evolución de los campos de concentración soviéticos que devuelve este infausto e inolvidable episodio al centro de la tormentosa historia del siglo XX. Con detalle y precisión asistimos a la vida cotidiana en el campo: las automutilaciones para evitar los trabajos forzados, las bodas entre prisioneros, la vida de las mujeres y los niños, las rebeliones y los intentos de fuga. El libro, documentado, riguroso y con una nueva introducción de su autora, sostiene que el Gulag nació no solo por la necesidad de aislar a los elementos que el Partido Comunista consideraba enemigos, sino para conseguir, al mismo tiempo, una masa de trabajadores esclavos que trabajara a cambio de comida en inmensos proyectos como el canal del mar Blanco o las minas de Kolimá. Tras la descripción del horror organizado por la Unión Soviética, el libro narra cómo Gorbachov, cuya familia se vio directamente afectada por esta política represiva, decidió terminar con este régimen carcelario liberando a la ciudadanía de uno de los sistemas represivos más perversos y crueles que el mundo ha conocido. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Gulag--the vast array of Soviet concentration camps--was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. The Gulag entered the world''''s historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn''''s epic oral history of the Soviet camps, The Gulag Archipelago. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, dozens of memoirs and new studies covering aspects of that system have been published in Russia and the West. Using these new resources as well as her own original historical research, Anne Applebaum has now undertaken, for the first time, a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. It is an epic feat of investigation and moral reckoning that places the Gulag where it at the center of our understanding of the troubled history of the twentieth century. Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance. The Gulag was first put in place in 1918 after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, Stalin personally decided to expand the camp system, both to use forced labor to accelerate Soviet industrialization and to exploit the natural resources of the country''''s barely habitable far northern regions. By the end of the 1930s, labor camps could be found in all twelve of the Soviet Union''''s time zones. The system continued to expand throughout the war years, reaching its height only in the early 1950s. From 1929 until the death of Stalin in 1953, some 18 million people passed through this massive system. Of these 18 million, it is estimated that 4.5 million never returned. But the Gulag was not just an economic institution. It also became, over time, a country within a country, almost a separate civilization, with its own laws, customs, literature, folklore, slang, and morality. Topic by topic, Anne Applebaum also examines how life was lived within this shadow how prisoners worked, how they ate, where they lived, how they died, how they survived. She examines their guards and their jailers, the horrors of transportation in empty cattle cars, the strange nature of Soviet arrests and trials, the impact of World War II, the relations between different national and religious groups, and the escapes, as well as the extraordinary rebellions that took place in the 1950s. She concludes by examining the disturbing question why the Gulag has remained relatively obscure, in the historical memory of both the former Soviet Union and the West. A History will immediately be recognized as a landmark work of historical scholarship and an indelible contribution to the complex, ongoing, necessary quest for truth.
release date: Jan 15, 2025
release date: Nov 04, 2024
release date: Oct 09, 2024
Autokrati AB : diktatorerna som vill styra världen
release date: Sep 13, 2024
release date: Aug 30, 2024
release date: Jul 23, 2024
release date: Jun 19, 2024
release date: Jan 18, 2023
Hambruna roja : La guerra de Stalin contra Ucrania / Red Famine: Stalins’s War on Ukraine
release date: Jul 19, 2022
release date: Nov 10, 2021
release date: May 12, 2021
El ocaso de la democracia
release date: May 06, 2021
Die Verlockung des Autoritären
release date: Mar 12, 2021
O crepúsculo da democracia
release date: Feb 15, 2021
Il tramonto della democrazia. Il fallimento della politica e il fascino dell'autoritarismo
release date: Jan 01, 2021
De schemering van de democratie
release date: Oct 07, 2020
release date: Sep 22, 2020
release date: Jul 21, 2020
Röd hungersnöd : Stalins krig mot Ukraina
release date: Nov 22, 2019
release date: Nov 11, 2019
release date: Oct 23, 2019
release date: Apr 15, 2019
release date: Jan 17, 2019
La grande carestia. La guerra di Stalin all'Ucraina
release date: Jan 01, 2019
release date: Jan 01, 2018
release date: Jan 01, 2018
release date: Oct 10, 2017
release date: Sep 26, 2017
release date: Jun 13, 2017
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