PositiveThe New York Times... a great deal of what Applebaum writes about in \'Gulag: A History has been told before...But that does not lessen her achievement ... Applebaum\'s book weighs in heavily in support of Solzhenitsyn on almost every point, and her account is backed not only by a careful use of the vast memoir literature but also by a thorough mining of the long-closed Soviet archives. Most important, she supports Solzhenitsyn\'s central argument: that the gulag was not some incidental Stalinist accretion to Lenin\'s visionary concept of Socialism ... Particularly useful is Applebaum\'s account of the camps during World War II ... It is fervently to be hoped that people will read Anne Applebaum\'s excellent, tautly written and very damning history. Even more fervently, one hopes that it will soon be translated into Russian.
