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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history;and;presents a collection of the writings of;survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although;the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars;has made it;possible to write the history of;this notorious concentration camp system, documents;tell only one side of the story.;Gulag;Voices;now fills in the other half. style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>; style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The;backgrounds;of the writers;reflect the extraordinary diversity of the Gulag;itself. Here are the personal stories of such figures; as Dmitri Likhachev, a renowned literary scholar; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate laborers; and Alexander Dolgun, an American citizen.;These;remembrances-;many of them appearing in English for the first time; each chosen for both literary;and;historical value-;collectively spotlight the strange moral universe of the camps, as well as the relationships that prisoners had with one another, with their guards, and with professional criminals who lived beside them. style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>; style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>A vital addition to;the;literature of this era, annotated for a generation that no longer remembers the;Soviet Union, "Gulag Voices; will inform, interest, and inspire, offering a source for reflection on human nature itself. style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>; style="MARGIN: 0in 0.5in 0pt" class=MsoNorma
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