The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag ...Show synopsisThe Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag Archipelago." Applebaum has undertaken a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Two 16 page photo inserts.Hide synopsis
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I probably never will get all of, "Gulag," read. Anne Applebaum's awesome, masterful, 586-page history of the Gulag, the labor/concentration camps of the Soviet Union, overwhelms me. A key question which must arise in the minds of most American readers is how and why we know and hear so much of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany's assault upon millions of people, but we know and hear so little of the Gulag. There is at least one important distinction. The German camps came to be outright death camps; people were herded to mass executions. The Soviets - by no means benign - did maintain their camps (mostly) as labor/banishment camps, albeit untold millions died of the cruelty and inhumanity which became their lot. There were no trials of the Gulag perpetrators or the guards or the informers. There were no state probes or official inquiries. When at last the Gulag ended, it was done. With exceptions (with Applebaum's notable exception), the Gulag was not even history. In part this may explain - incredible - Josef Stalin "deported the Chechen nation to the wastes of Kazakhstan where half of them died and the rest were meant to disappear, with their language and culture." Then - twice in the 1990s - the Russian federation launched wars against the Chechen people, killed tens of thousands, and destroyed the Chechen capital of Grozny. Applebaum notes this is the moral equivalent of Germany invading Poland twice in the 1990s. Focus on the Gulag and its consequences becomes withering.
"Gulag: A History" is an exhaustive but still reader-friendly chronicle of the Soviet system of forced labor prison camps that sprang up shortly after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, then eventually dissolved after the death of Josef Stalin in 1953.
Author Anne Applebaum breaks the whole story down by category, starting with arrest (one could find oneself sentenced to ten years or more for merely overhearing a joke about Stalin), transit, back-breaking work, starvation rations, eventual release, etc.
Something I, along with the author, found ironic is how the history of Russia's horrific excesses are viewed very differently from those of the Nazi regime, although the two governments were, in many ways, very similar. Applebaum tells of walking along a busy street in Prague, where street vendors were selling Soviet trinkets such as old belt buckles and hats. She comments that most of the people buying were Americans and West Euopeans, who would have been sickened at the thought of wearing a swastika on a T-shirt, but would think nothing of wearing a communist hammer & sickle, although the Soviets, depending on whose numbers you believe, murdered five to ten times as many people as the Nazis.
This irony is made all the more tagic by this fact: while most of the victims of the Nazis were sent to concentration camps expressly for the purpose of killing them, most of the prisoners who died in the Gulag died due simply to Soviet negligence and incompetence. I suppose, however, that this distiction is lost on the dead.
"Gulag" requires an investment of time: its 600 pages are filled with tiny print. It's a worthy exercise, however, for anyone looking to understand the causes and effects of one history's greatest crimes against humanity.
This book is the first in-depth study of the Russian concentration camp/prison system published in English. It's pretty heavy hitting and isn't light reading! Makes you understand what Solzhenitsyn was talking about. It's really well written though, and doesn't plod along like some histories. It won the Pulizter prize.
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