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Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps [Hardcover]

Tomasz Kizny (Author)

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*Starred Review* Kizny, a Polish photographer and journalist, spent 15 years researching this amazing book, which contains 550 black-and-white photographs of life in the Soviet Gulag. In 1986 he began collecting eyewitness accounts from former Polish prisoners, and he traveled across the former USSR to find other witnesses and to photograph remnants of the Gulag, which was in operation from the 1920s to the 1980s and consisted of a network of concentration camps spread across the most northerly reaches of Europe and Asia. The harshness of the Arctic climate, the starvation levels of the diet, the length of the sentences, the routine brutality and depravity of the guards, the absence of proper medical care and of adequate heating and clothing, and the lack of hope inevitably produced a devastating mortality rate. Tens of millions of the convicts were frozen, starved, or worked or beaten to death. The photos gathered here range from official archival snapshots, showing both inmates and their captors, to scenes of enormous construction projects and snowbound ruins. Kizny has added his own photographs of the abandoned camps or work projects and included a brief history of the camps and personal accounts of survivors. These rare and historically significant photographs can only hint at the appalling horrors committed within the camps, and the importance of the book cannot be overstated. George Cohen
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A massive volume of photos, history an memoirs... the atrocity known as the Gulag... Read this book. (Linda Turk Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal 20041031)

Hundreds of photos of gulag inmates and their surroundings... introduced by short and damning essays...an essentially arresting and haunting compilation. (Library Journal 200412)

A stark visual reminder of the tens of millions of zeks, or putative convicts, who perished. (Carlin Romano Philadelphia Inquirer 20050324)

Unique... certainly the widest ranging and most complete album of Gulag photographs ever published. (Anne Applebaum New York Review of Books 20041204)

Massive... What makes Kinzy's book distinct from previous Gulag exposés is its powerful pictorial testimony. (Louise Abbott Montreal Gazette 20041128)

Had Alexander Solzhenitsyn's forte been gathering photographs he would have created a book like Tomasz Kizny's. (Globe and Mail 200505)

Listed in January Magazine's Best of 2004: Extraordinary... unforgettable... Gulag is much more than a book: it's a lifework. (Aaron Blanton January Magazine 200601)

Rare and historically significant photographs can only hint at the appalling horrors... the importance of the book cannot be overstated. (George Cohen Booklist )

Powerful and moving... It's tough and many of the photographs will send a chill down your spine. (M. Horton Edmonton Journal )

Impressive... a stunning indictment of Soviet totalitarianism... many memorable images in this powerful book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. (T. Sexton Choice )

An extraordinary book. (January Magazine )
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A brutal reminder of horrible times, Nov 25 2008
By James D. Crabtree "Doc Crabtree" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps (Hardcover)
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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, Nov 24 2010
By Weisser Wolf - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gulag (Hardcover)
An excellent book with many photos that tell the individual stories better than writings ever could. The photos bring life in the gulag into a new perspective and show a long hidden aspect of the "Soviet Paradise". This book should be exhibit "A" for treason trials of those in the U.S.A. that covered up and dismissed evidence of these atrocities, particularly those in the print media. Also, I am still waiting for Hollywood to make it's first motion picture about the Soviet Gulag and the concentration camp system...wonder why this has never been done?!?!?!?

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Sad time in our civilization., Nov 23 2008
By Willie C. Branagan "willow48" - Published on Amazon.com
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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.
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