books about: gulag     books:       The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)4 reviews Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener. For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a combination memoir and dissertation on the evils of Communism and its inevitable product, the forced labor camp. Some have ...             The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)107 reviews Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State "A stone is not a human being, and even stones get crushed." This was an absolutely brutal, yet enlightening read. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a young, decorated Red Army officer who served bravely during the war, only to be arrested, tortured, and sent to the Gulag Archipelago (the forced labor camp system) to do a ten year sentence, followed by permanent internal exile. This book is a ...             Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya23 reviews Caroline Elkins Owl Books, 2005 Best historical read I read this book as a supplemental material to an undergraduate course in African Politics. With the background knowledge I had, the story was extremely horrifying but brought to my attention the effects of colonialism I had never before considered or heard of. The connection between WWII, colonialism in Kenya and the present Kenyan state was enhanced significantly after reading this story.             The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, Parts I - II2 reviews Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn HarperCollins Publisher, 1974 Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Archipelago refers to many great ports scattered from the Bering Strait to Bosporus.There were thousands of small islands where people were transported for varying periods of time. In addition, there were transit prisons at Ust-Usa and portable confinements by rail. Prisoners were subjected to extensive methods of interrogation including sleep deprivation at night, persuasion, ...             Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag33 reviews Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson University of California Press, 1999 An unbelievably bleak tale of survival in the Gulag Janusz Bardach, who became a plastic surgeon in Iowa City, Iowa in 1972, recounts his experiences in the Gulag in this bleak tale of survival reminiscent of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. A secular Jewish man and supporter of Stalin and communism living in Poland In 1939, he and his family fear their future as Germany's military forces are set up along the border. He is eventually ...             The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag50 reviews Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot Basic Books, 2005 A Chilling Story, Compellingly Told Abject stories of horror are difficult to take in. We sometimes turn aside when reading the horror because our minds find it hard to digest the bleak facts. While this book is filled with horrors -- families torn asunder, abuse of pregnant women, torture by prison guards, among many other recountings -- the story is still told with humanity and grace, and ultimately ends with hope, if not ...             Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)4 reviews Ruth Wilson Gilmore University of California Press, 2007 An excellent book...a must read! Ruthie Gilmore's examination of California's prison-industrial complex paints a sobering portrait of the effects of the state's post-industrial decline in the past quarter century. Supplemented by numerous charts, maps, and statistics, Gilmore argues that the massive prison-building project that began in the early 1980s was rooted in earlier developments, namely the failure of the ...             Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag Tig Hague Gotham, 2008 The haunting true story of a hardworking British businessman who became mired in the deadly, corruption-laden nightmare of Russia?s current prison system?and lived to tell about it, thanks to a love affair that kept his hope alive and the efforts of family and friends in Moscow and in London. A twenty-first-century Midnight Express , Tig Hague?s powerful memoir brings to light the brutal machinations of Putin?s Russia?a world where the ...             Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive ...14 reviews Karl Tobien WaterBrook Press, 2006 Is What it Is and Does What It Does Perfectly First a note about other reviews: Largely ignore the negative comments. The three greatest negative comments I've read are those referring to: 1) Proselytizing 2) Writing style 3) Historical research/content/details. At this point, these three types of negative comments seem to run from greatest to least in this order. First of all, or to cover #1 . . . proselytizing: There really ...             Gulag: A History73 reviews Anne Applebaum Anchor, 2004 The more I know about Russia, the happier I am to be American (if only by heart) It's a work of labor as much as debt and seer investigative powers. It covers every aspect of the Gulag system from its pre-history to its closing-down. Russia's history is sad, unsentimental, and violent. One must thank God that Americans took a more noble and humane path for their history. If people get what they deserve, the Russians must be really wicked, and Americans must congratulate ...             Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)5 reviews Nicolas Werth Princeton University Press, 2007 Powerful. Incredible. The holocaust at Cannibal Island. In the 1930's Stalin decided to liquidate the all kulaks, those peasants who owned at least a bit of property. After having their crops confiscated, peasants starved to death by the millions. Some suffered an even worse fate. They were sent to Siberia's Cannibal island. Thousands of these people were dumped onto Nanzino island, a small island on the Ob river surrounded by the vast ...             The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (Annals of Communism Series)1 review Oleg V. Khlevniuk Yale University Press, 2004 Factual and thorough Oleg Khlevniuk's Russian archive work on researching the true extent of the destruction of humans under Stalin is by far the best work in the field. By painstakingly analyzing secret reports, top secret letters between Commissars, censuses, official data, the Chrushchov era KGB research, etc. he is capable of giving an authoritative and absolutely fair analysis of exactly what went on in the ...             American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons2 reviews Mark Dow University of California Press, 2005 Systemic Abuse Given the current focus on the mistreatment and torture of detainees in Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere and the debate over the origins of this abhorrent behavior, this is a very timely book. As well as describing the Kafkaesque intricacies of recent Immigration law, Dow documents the mistreatment of non-criminal detainees, showing that the abuse of human beings in detention has a long and ...             The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements4 reviews Lynne Viola Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Excellent scholarly work on the lost gulag Gulag is the abbreviation for the vast agglomeration of prisons, penal camps and settlements that held the millions of citizens the Marxist/Leninist Communists enslaved. This scholarly work covers the establishment of the settlements populated by the expropriated "kulaks" -- rich peasants, the definition of which changed constantly. Millions of people, mostly entirely families, denounced as ...             The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 I-II3 reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Harper & Row, 1973 If It Sounds Too Good to be True, It Probably Is! Gulag Archipelago is the award winning expose that shocked the world with its revelations about the true nature of life in the, "worker's paradise," a.k.a, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) The author, a once dedicated Communist himself, shows how millions of Soviet citizens were arrested, tortured into "confessing" various "crimes against the state" and imprisoned for long ...             The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts V-VII2 reviews Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Harpercollins, 1978 Includes Allusions to Russian Despotism, the Warsaw-Uprising-Betrayal, and the Katyn Denial This monumental work provides a great deal of arcane details about Russian history, Soviet thinking and policies, and the situation inside the Gulags. For this reason, it can be hard to follow to the reader who doesn't have extensive prior knowledge about these matters. Two glossaries in the back of the book are helpful in this regard. Because there are so many topics and issues raised in this ...             Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag17 reviews Alexander Dolgun, Patrick Watson (Contributor) Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1975 "Whatever you do, write about us. Tell the world about us. People have to know." During a walk one day in Moscow, NYC-born twenty-two-year old employee of the American Embassy in Moscow, Alexander Dolgun, was kidnapped and taken to "the Lubyanka prison, headquarters of the MGB." Initially, thinking what a great tale he'd have to tell (having seen the inside of such a famous place), knowing he hadn't committed a crime, he was unafraid, maybe even a little bit...excited. But it ...             The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, An Experiment in Literary Investigation III - IV3 reviews Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Harper & Row, 1975 A Literary Mount Everest The wit and wisdom of this book is almost beyond comprehension. I defy anyone to read the chapter, "The Ascent", and then tell me they have read a better twenty pages of literature....from any era.             Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West5 reviews Martin J. Bollinger Naval Institute Press, 2008 Solid research, shocking accounts As an undergraduate in a modern Russian literature course, I read "Kolyma Streetcar" which was about an incident that ocurred on one of the "slave ships" which is documented in this book. As gruesome and disgusting as that account was, I had no idea that it was only the tip of the iceberg. For example, in "Stalin's Slave Ships," it is documented that: 1. The "Indigirka," a ship carrying around ...             Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag27 reviews Armando Valladares Encounter Books, 2001 Makes Shawshank seem like a Club Med Another Amazon reviewer got it right when he wrote that this book should be given to all one's deluded friends sporting hip "Che" T-shirts. This eye-opening, stomach-churning account of the author's 22 years in Cuban prisons, the conditions of which make Shawshank seem like a Club Med, demolishes the romanticized memory of "freedom fighters" like Che and exposes the lie that Castro's Revolution ...              search for books 1918-1956, abridged, alexander, american, aquariums, archipelago, california, cannibal, collectivization, communism, crossroads, experiment, extraordinary, globalizing, harrowing, humanity, immigration, imperial, imprisonment, investigation, literary, margaret, modern-day, opposition, pyongyang, reckoning, settlements, siberian, surviving, tomorrow books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Fraud Examination Updated Printing leave a comment home  impressum - about us