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Gulag: a history - New York: Doubleday, 2003 - 677p.

Based on records and personal experiences this book is a history of the Soviet system of forced labour camps that existed for much of the twentieth century, from the Russian Revolution to Glasnost. Between 1929 and 1953 18 million people passed through the camps of whom it is estimated four and half million did not return.

0767900561 (hbk.): 35.00 US


CONCENTRATION CAMPS--SOVIET UNION
FORCED LABOUR--SOVIET UNION
PRISONS--SOVIET UNION