Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps

By Tomasz Kizny

A historic photographic record of the Soviet Gulag and its legacy. The Gulag was a network of labor camps and penal colonies run by the Soviet security organizations. While forced labor and internal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552979644
• ISBN13: 9781552979648
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 8.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.8" x 1.6" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A brutal reminder of horrible times

The Gulag system of slave labor camps is rarely brought up and never compared to the death camps run by the nazis. Yet millions lost their lives in them, and they were not just Russians either: Ukrainians, Latvians, Finns, Uzbeks, Armenians, Poles, Czechs, Germans, Spaniards and even some Americans wound up in the meat grinder that was the communist response to opposition, both real and imagined. Run by the secret police, photography was officially forbidden and yet the author of this book has managed to locate photos of select aspects of the Gulag, as well as current photos which show the results of forced labor. This is a very haunting book but does not begin to touch the horror that was the Gulag system. The eyes of the lost look back at you, many of them guards and prison administrators before the system caught up with them as well.

Sad time in our civilization.

Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps This is a pictoral book that defies description. It shows a very sad time in our civilization, man's inhumanity to man. It is a phenomenol reminder of a time no one should forget.