Volume 47, Number 10 · June 15, 2000
Inside the Gulag
By Anne Applebaum
Sistema Ispravitelno-Trudovikh Lagerei v SSSR, 1923-1960: Spravochnik (The System of Labor Camps in the USSR, 1923-1960: A Guide)
edited by N.G. Okhotin, by A.B. Roginsky
Moscow: Zvenya, 598 pp.
Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System
by Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova
M.E. Sharpe, 208 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Gulag v Komi Krai (The Gulag in the Komi Region)
by N.A. Morozov
Siktivar: Siktivkarskii Universitet, 181 pp.
Gulag v Karelii (The Gulag in Karelia)
edited by Vasily Makurov
Petrozavodsk: Karelskii Nauchni Tsentr RAN, 225 pp.
Vyatlag
by Viktor Berdinskikh
Kirov: Kirovskaya Oblastnaya Tipografia, 318 pp.
Polyansky ITL (Corrective Labor Camp) Zheleznogorska
by S.P. Kuchin
Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk-26): Museino-Vystavochny Tsentr, 256 pp.
Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag
edited by Vilensky Simeon
Indiana University Press, 364 pp., $35.00
To some Russians, the memory of a first encounter with Alexander Sol-zhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is as much a physical memory—the blurry, mimeographed text, the dog-eared paper, the dim glow of the lamp switched on late at night—as it is one of reading the revelatory text itself. Although nearly three decades have passed since unbound, hand-typed samizdat manuscripts of the work began circulating around what used to be the Soviet Union, many can also still recall the emotions stirred by possessing the book, remembering who gave it to them, who else knew about it, whom they passed it on to next. In part, this was because The Gulag Archipelago, banned at home and published to great acclaim abroad, had the allure of the forbidden.
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