Anne Applebaum is Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction as well as numerous other awards. She lives in Warsaw, Poland.
“The power of Gulag Voices is not only to remind us of the horrors
of the Soviet Union’s corrective labour institutions and to honour
those who were incarcerated there. It is also to illuminate the
human consequences that ensue when any state’s legal system fails
to recognise the human rights of prisoners.”—Wendy Slater, Times
Literary Supplement
*Times Literary Supplement*
“[Gulag Voices] will inform a generation fortunate enough to be
living in different times.”—Mary Dejevsky, The Independent
*The Independent*
“Applebaum….is the ideal editor, providing introductions to each
account, as well as a general explanation of the Gulag system. Her
selection, each depicting a different aspect of Gulag life, leaves
an unforgettable impression.”—Anthony Beevor, The Mail on
Sunday
*The Mail on Sunday*
“…Applebaum has performed an invaluable service…. She has put
together a marvellous collection of memoirs, stories and
reminiscences written by surviving Gulag inmates ranging from the
1920’s when Lenin opened camps in the first days after the
Revolution, to the late 1970’s, a time when most Westerners, as
well as Russians, presumed that such places no longer
existed.”—Victor Sebestyen, The Spectator
*The Spectator*
“A shocking mosaic of misery, of courage and of just about
unimaginable resilience – this anthology brings together first-hand
accounts of what it took men and women to survive. A disturbing and
yet, in its way, inspiring book.” Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman,
19th March 2011
*The Scotsman*
"A book that weaves together chilling official history and personal
stories of suffering and survival."—Contemporary Review
*Contemporary Review*
"Anne Applebaum, who had plumbed the archives to great effect in
her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gulag: A History (2003),
persuasively argues in the introduction to Gulag Voices that the
profoundly personal perspective of Gulag memoirists . . . mean[s]
that their works—valuable as both 'literature and testimony'—serve
a 'moral and didactic' purpose as well as an historical one. . . .
Works such as Gulag Voices encourage historical understanding and
moral catharsis and should be welcomed by Russians and Westerners
alike."—Daniel J. Mahoney, The New Criterion
*The New Criterion*
"[T]he perfect companion for college courses on Soviet history. . .
. This book, along with several similar books more or less
simultaneously published, should be read widely."—Timothy J.
Colton, Journal of Cold War Studies
*Journal of Cold War Studies*
"'A journey into an incredibly rich and sharp recollection of
feelings and emotions… The memoirs of these authors take the reader
far beyond the duty of memory towards the dead, into the depths of
the human heart where, as Solzhenitsyn disclosed when he wrote The
Gulag Archipelago, 'the line separating good and evil passes.'" The
Global Journal, June 2012
*The Global Journal*
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