History Book Club of Los Angeles

Our next book will be the Pulitzer Prize winning Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum. We'll meet on August 30 at 12:30 PM to discuss the book.

Here is the zoom link:
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ID: 83051250970
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This is a long book (760 pages), so please get an early start. To join the discussion, please RSVP for the meetup. If you do RSVP and find you're unable to attend, please update your attendance. No shows will be removed from the group.

From Amazon: (https://amzn.to/4udAqZW)
This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.

Kirkus Reviews named Gulag the Best Nonfiction Book of the Century

A vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism.

Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union.

Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.