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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book about the Soviet Gulag system.  This book not only gives a complete historical overview, it also goes into detail about the living and social conditions within the camps.  And thoughout, it is artfully written.  Applebaum begins introducing the topic and its importance, followed by wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40073024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew this book would be a very depressing read before I commenced.  It didn't fail to live up to expectations.<br/><br/>Anne Applebaum has written an unbelievable tome on what is now known as the former Soviet Union's gulag archipelago.  Years spent reading and researching Russian archives, lett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28864870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is extremely long (almost 600 pages), but is so well written that it never becomes boring.  It mixes history, memoirs of those who were in Gulag, and the author's own experience of Russia and researching the book.  Certainly recommended to anyone interested in Gulag, Russia, Solzhenitsyn, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20177033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was absolutely heartbreaking and fascinating. This book won the Pulitzer the year it came out and it was well deserved. The amount of research that was done in order to compile the information and stories within this book is astounding. It may start a little slow for a chapter or two, when desc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41940831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an important book. A truly damning history that needed to be written in an accesible way for western readers. To this day the events surrounding the soviet Gulag are rather murky and extremely played down in the western view of the times. Nazi concentration camps and atrocities far overshado...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75605851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A powerful exposition of one of the greatest systematic abuses of human rights in history.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone should read this book.  See what happens when the Government runs everything!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Profoundly moving. Deeply insightful. Wonderfully structured. A monument.]]></body>
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