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"""Anne Applebaum, who had plumbed the archives to great effect in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gulag: A History (2003), persuasively argues in the introduction to Gulag Voices that the profoundly personal perspective of Gulag memoirists ... mean[s] that their works-valuable as both 'literature and testimony'-serve a 'moral and didactic' purpose as well as an historical one... Works such as Gulag Voices encourage historical understanding and moral catharsis and should be welcomed by Russians and Westerners alike.""-Daniel J. Mahoney, The New Criterion -- Daniel J. Mahoney The New Criterion ""[T]he perfect companion for college courses on Soviet history... This book, along with several similar books more or less simultaneously published, should be read widely.""-Timothy J. Colton, Journal of Cold War Studies -- Timothy J. Colton Journal of Cold War Studies"

Anne Applebaum, who had plumbed the archives to great effect in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gulag: A History (2003), persuasively argues in the introduction to Gulag Voices that the profoundly personal perspective of Gulag memoirists . . . mean[s] that their works--valuable as both ''literature and testimony''--serve a ''moral and didactic'' purpose as well as an historical one. . . . Works such as Gulag Voices encourage historical understanding and moral catharsis and should be welcomed by Russians and Westerners alike. --Daniel J./i>--Daniel J. Mahoney The New Criterion

[T]he perfect companion for college courses on Soviet history. . . . This book, along with several similar books more or less simultaneously published, should be read widely. --Timothy J./i>--Timothy J. Colton Journal of Cold War Studies

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Anne Applebaum is Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction as well as numerous other awards. She lives in Warsaw, Poland.

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