Gulag (Spanish Edition)
Historia de los campos de concentración soviéticos
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Premio de Periodismo de El Mundo y Premio Francisco Cerecedo de Periodismo 2021
Una extensa y detallada historia del origen y el desarrollo de los Gulags soviéticos y su herencia hasta la actualidad.
El Gulag aparece en la conciencia de occidente en 1977 con la publicación de la obra de Aleksandr Solzhenitsin Archipiélago Gulag. A partir de nuevos estudios, memorias publicadas tras la caída de la URSS y algunos archivos hasta ahora secretos, Anne Applebaum realiza una reconstrucción histórica del origen y la evolución de los campos de concentración soviéticos que devuelve este infausto e inolvidable episodio al centro de la tormentosa historia del convulso siglo XX. Con detalle y precisión asistimos a la vida cotidiana en el campo: las automutilaciones para evitar los trabajos forzados, las bodas entre prisioneros, la vida de las mujeres y los niños, las rebeliones y los intentos de fuga.
El libro, documentado y riguroso, sostiene que el Gulag nació no solo por la necesidad de aislar a los elementos que el Partido Comunista consideraba enemigos, sino para conseguir, al mismo tiempo, una masa de trabajadores-esclavos que trabajara a cambio de comida en inmensos proyectos como el canal del mar Blanco o las minas de Kolimá. Tras la descripción del horror organizado por el régimen soviético, el libro narra cómo Gorbachov, cuya familia se vio directamente afectada por esta política represiva, decidió terminar con este régimen carcelario liberando a la ciudadanía de uno de los más perversos y crueles sistemas represivos que el mundo ha conocido.
Reseña:
«El Gulag de Anne Applebaum es un libro importante. Sus muchos años de minuciosa investigación han provisto a la autora de un inmenso caudal de fascinantes detalles para recrear una terrible e inolvidable historia.» (Anthony Beevor, autor de Stalingrado)
Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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On a sunny morning in May 1939, a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods 50 miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded in through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Holocaust.
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My mother was a Ravensbruck survivor.
- By Stephen Sean Campbell on 07-06-20
By: Sarah Helm
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The Holocaust
- A New History
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- Narrated by: Eric Vale
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- Unabridged
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Laurence Rees has spent 25 years meeting the survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. In this sweeping history, he combines this testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was possible. Rees argues that while hatred of the Jews was at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, we cannot fully understand the Holocaust without considering Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FANTASTIC BOOK, BUT HORRIBLE READING
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Hanns and Rudolf
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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May 1945: In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss' capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Read This Marvelous Book...
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Masters of Death
- The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust. These "special task forces", organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into Eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final Solution. They murdered more than one and a half million men, women, and children between 1941 and 1943, often by shooting them into killing pits, as at Babi Yar.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book...but...
- By Disintegrator on 08-26-19
By: Richard Rhodes
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian Revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief, the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem.
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Horrifying
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By: Anne Applebaum
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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
- By: Alexandra Popoff
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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- Unabridged
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If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What? Nazism = communism?
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl
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- By: Arthur Allen
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
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- Unabridged
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 49
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The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across Russia in search of the memory of the Gulag.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a wonderful reminder never to forget
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By: Masha Gessen
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- Narrated by: John Lee
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 336
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 340
The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the 20th century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Better in print?
- By Rodney on 10-10-12
By: Keith Lowe
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
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- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
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- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,012
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 874
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Story5 out of 5 stars 870
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be required reading in US schools
- By Richard on 01-01-21
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- By: Greg Dawson
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- Unabridged
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 172
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When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz, of Dachau; and when they think of justice for this terrible chapter in history, they think of Nuremberg. Not of Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not a town called Kharkov. But in reality, the first war-crimes trial against the Nazis was in this idyllic, peaceful Ukrainian city, which is fitting, because it is also where the Holocaust actually began.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don’t Insult Your Audience
- By Michael Richards on 01-21-22
By: Greg Dawson
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
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- Abridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,757
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
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Berlin at War
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- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 181
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 182
In Berlin at War, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse provides a magnificent and detailed portrait of everyday life at the epicenter of the Third Reich. Berlin was the stage upon which the rise and fall of the Third Reich was most visibly played out. It was the backdrop for the most lavish Nazi ceremonies, the site of Albert Speer's grandiose plans for a new "world metropolis", and the scene of the final climactic battle to defeat Nazism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A unique study of part of World War II
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
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- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, and others
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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4 out of 5 stars
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The bar of manhood
- By Rhea on 09-22-13
By: Witold Pilecki, and others
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Soldiers and Slaves
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- By: Roger Cohen
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soldiers and Slaves
- By Hilda on 01-29-09
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The Scourge of the Swastika
- A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II
- By: Lord Russell of Liverpool
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 327
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When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the Holocaust. While the Final Solution was a unique and unparalleled horror, German atrocities did not end there. The Nazis terrorized their own citizens, tortured and murdered POWs, and carried out countless executions throughout occupied Europe. Lord Russell of Liverpool was part of the legal team that brought Nazi war criminals to justice, and from this first-hand position, he published the best-selling The Scourge of the Swastika in 1954. Liverpool shows that the actions of the Third Reich, were illegal, not merely immoral.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lord Russell's Warning From History
- By Kindle Customer on 05-24-16
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- Roberto Lomana
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excellent
probably those who have suffered totalitarian regimes can actually understand. I used to live in some island in the Caribbean sea……..
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