简介：WewillneverknowhowmanypeoplewerevictimsofcommunismbetweentheOctoberRevolutionof1917andStalin’sdeathinMarch1953.Somehistorianssay20milliondiedothers50million.MillionsmoreworkedasslavesintheGulag,thesystemofmines,factoriesandbuildingsiteswhichlayattheheartofthegreatSovietdriveforindustrialisation. Gulagistragedyonaharrowingscale.Thestoriesofanightmareworld,toldinthewordsofbothvictimsandperpetrators,continuetohaunttoday’ssociety.SlavelabourbuilttheRussianParliamentandhalfofMoscow.ThelegendaryVolgaCanalwasbuiltbytheGulagandifpeoplediedduringtheirworkthentheywouldbethrowninwiththecement. GulagisajourneyfromacanalontheoutskirtsofMoscowtothedesertsofcentralAsiaandthesnowywastesoftheArcticviatheheartofRussiansocietyandhistory.ItisnotsimplyastoryofrepressionbutanexplorationofthewaythecampsystemstandsasametaphorforSovietRussiaforthecampscombinedrepressionwithahugeeconomicpurpose,lyingattheheartofStalin’splanstoindustrialise.…