Gulag

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, MAY 2004

Copyright © 2003 by Anne Applebaum

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:

Applebaum, Anne, 1964–

Gulag: a history / Anne Applebaum.— 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Concentration camps—Soviet Union—History.

2. Forced labor—Soviet Union—History.

3. Prisons—Soviet Union—History.

4. Soviet Union—Politics and government.

I. Title.

HV8964.S65 A67 2003

365’.45’094709041—dc21 2002041344

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