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The author of the book, Anne Applebaum, has been described as a "historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post-communist Europe." [5] Gulag was Applebaum's first widely acclaimed publication, followed by Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 published in 2012 and Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine published in 2017.
In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot (about 6,500 km or 4,000 mi), supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching British India in the winter of 1942.
His previous book on the subject, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", about a typical day in the life of a Gulag inmate, was originally published in the most prestigious Soviet monthly, Novy Mir (New World), in November 1962, but was soon banned and withdrawn from all libraries. It was the first work to demonstrate the Gulag as an ...
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The nine founding members were the Tenement Museum (US), the Gulag Museum at Perm-36 (Russia), the House of Slaves (Senegal), the Workhouse (England), la Memoria Abierta (Argentina), the District Six Museum (South Africa), the National Park Service (US), the Terezin Memorial (Czech Republic), and the Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh).
From June 9, 1932 to August 17, 1937, he was head of the Gulag. [1] He was awarded the Order of Lenin on August 4, 1933, soon after the completion of the White Sea – Baltic Canal. [3] By 1935, by his own count, Berman was in charge of over 740,000 prisoners working on 15 major projects in the Gulag. [4] [5] [6]
Works about the Gulag, the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labour camps which were set up by order of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s.
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968–1973).