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Gulag A History reveals Stalin era death camps and their toll
Anne Applebaum documents the Gulag system from 1929 to 1953 drawing on survivor testimonies and archives. The book argues the camps were not extermination but a state driven profit attempt that wasted labor and capital. A notable project was the Sakhalin tunnel abandoned soon after Stalin’s death.
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