This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. "Gulag" is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West. Using these, as well as her own original research in NKVD archives and interviews with survivors, Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. It is a gigantic feat of investigation, synthesis and moral reckoning.

作者：（美國）安妮•阿普爾鮑姆 譯者：戴大洪

安妮•阿普爾鮑姆，《華盛頓郵報》專欄作傢和編輯部成員（2002-2006）。畢業於耶魯大學（1986），馬歇爾奬學金獲得者（1987）。曾擔任（倫敦）《旁觀者》雜誌國外編輯，《經濟學傢》雜誌駐華沙記者和網絡雜誌《石闆》以及一些英國報紙的專欄作傢。作品還發錶在《紐約書評》、《外交季刊》、《華爾街日報》以及許多其他報紙刊物上。她的著作還有《東方與西方之間：跨越歐洲的中間地帶》。