Gulag: A History Audiobook

Quotes

• “An excellent account of the rise and fall of the Soviet labor camps between 1917 and 1986…A splendid book.”

  — New York Review of Books

• “An affecting book that enables us at last to see the Gulag whole…A valuable and necessary book.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Should become the standard history of one of the greatest evils of the twentieth century.”

  — Economist

• “Thorough, engrossing…A searing attack on the corruption and the viciousness that seemed to rule the system and a testimonial to the resilience of the Russian people…Her research is impeccable.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “A book whose importance is impossible to exaggerate…Magisterial…Applebaum’s book, written with such quiet elegance and moral seriousness, is a major contribution to curing the amnesia that curiously seems to have affected broader public perceptions of one of the two or three major enormities of the twentieth century.”

  — Times Literary Supplement (London)

• “The most authoritative—and comprehensive—account of this Soviet blight ever published by a Western writer.”

  — Newsweek

• “A titanic achievement: learned and moving and profound…[None] will easily forget Applebaum’s vivid accounts of the horrible human suffering of the Gulag.”

  — National Review

• “Magisterial…Certain to remain the definitive account of its subject for years to come…An immense achievement.”

  — New Criterion

• “Ambitious and well-documented…Invaluable…Applebaum methodically, and unflinchingly, provides a sense of what it was like to enter and inhabit the netherworld of the Gulag.”

  — New Yorker

• “[Applebaum’s] writing is powerful and incisive, but it achieves this effect through simplicity and restraint rather than stylistic flourish…Admirable and courageous.”

  — Washington Monthly

• “Monumental…Applebaum uses her own formidable reporting skills to construct a gripping narrative.”

  — Newsday

• “No Western author until Anne Applebaum attempted to produce a history of the Gulag based on the combination of eyewitness accounts and archival records. The result is an impressively thorough and detailed study; no aspect of this topic escapes her attention. Well written, accessible…Enlightening for both the general reader and specialists.”

  — New York Sun

• “A truly impressive achievement…We should all be grateful to [Applebaum].”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “A chronicle of ghastly human suffering, a history of one of the greatest abuses of power in the story of our species, and a cautionary tale of towering moral significance…A magisterial work, written in an unflinching style that moves as much as it shocks, and that glistens with the teeming life and stinking putrefaction of doomed men and rotten ideals.”

  — Daily Telegraph (London)

• “An epic portrait of this crime against humanity.”

  — Washington Post