Book reviews: Gulag: A History of the Soviet Concentration Camps: The hammer and sickle's grim harvest

Scotland on Sunday | May 18, 2003| | Copyright

GULAG: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Anne Applebaum

Allen Lane, GBP 25

JANUSZ Bardach saw a fellow gulag prisoner collapse during a morning roll call. A crowd formed around him. "I get his hat," one prisoner shouted. A feeding frenzy ensued - within minutes the unfortunate man was stripped of his clothes. A fight broke out over his underwear. Lying naked on the frozen ground, the prisoner suddenly sat up, muttered "It's so cold", and promptly died of exposure.

The poor man was one of the nameless millions who perished in the gulags. But killing was not the purpose of the ...

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