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Free Download The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Alan Barenberg
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 0197548229 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 2.43 MB
A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard prison system with the goal of isolating and punishing alleged enemies of the Soviet regime. it stretched throughout the Soviet Union, from central Moscow to the farthest reaches of Siberia. From its creation in 1930 to its partial dismantling in the mid-1950s, approximately 25 million people passed through the Gulag.

Free Download Zvi Preigerzon, Alex Lahav, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1644699036, 1644699044 | 244 pages | EPUB | 10.7 MB
Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject. It was one of the first eyewitness accounts of the harsh reality of Soviet Gulags. Even after the death of Stalin, when the whole Gulag system was largely disbanded, writing about them could be regarded as an act of heroism. Preigerzon attempted to document and analyze his own prison camp experience and portray the Jewish prisoners he encountered in forced labor camps. Among these people, we meet scientists, engineers, famous Jewish writers and poets, young Zionists, a devoted religious man, a horse wagon driver, a Jewish singer of folk songs, and many, many others. As Preigerzon put it, "Each one had his own story, his own soul, and his own tragedy."

Free Download The Gulag in Writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov by Fabian Heffermehl
English | 19 Aug. 2021 | ISBN: 9004468455 | 309 pages | PDF | 3.27 Mb
The book offers an account of the two most famous authors of the Gulag: Varlam Shalamov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.