The Bamboo Gulag: Political Imprisonment in Communist Vietnam Nghia M. Vo McFarland & Company, 2004 This comprehensive review of the gulag system instituted in communist Vietnam explores the three-pronged approach that was used to convert the rebellious South into a full-fledged communist country after 1975. This book attempts to retrace the path of these imprisoned people from the last months of the war to their escape from Vietnam and explores the emotions that gripped them throughout ...             Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West4 reviews Martin J. Bollinger Praeger Publishers, 2003 Solid research, shocking accounts + A Review + Author's Correction + Well Researched Work             Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag31 reviews Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson University of California Press, 1999 An unbelievably bleak tale of survival in the Gulag + Gripping + Stunning + Surviving against all odds + must read for those interested in the holocaust             Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors Leona Toker Indiana University Press, 2000 "This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] could start a debate about modern literature with rich potential for further development." -Michael Scammell This first systematic literary investigation of memoiristic and fictional narratives dealing with the experience of the prisoners of Soviet concentration camps surveys the "Gulag" corpus from the 1920s ...             Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag10 reviews Harry Wu, Carolyn Wakeman Wiley, 1995 Shocking expose of China's hideous gulags that still exist today + Gotta love Communism! NOT! + One Man¡¯s Response to the Problem if Injustice. + Perhaps the most engrossing book I've ever read. + A Glimpse into Hell             Gulag1 review Sean Flannery Jove Books, 1987 Expectation Definetly a lot of suspense. Keeps the reader focused throgh out the reading. Worth to stay a saturday night reading it.Not exactly the kind of fiction you would read before sleep. Pure intrigue with some feelings involved in the most subtle way. The details given filled my imagination to make it ...             Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria5 reviews Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999 Gruesome and sickening + If you want to be scared out of your wits...read this book! + The Forgotten Gulag This book contains the first hand accounts of many of the people involved in the work camps of Belene and Lovech. Belene is an island located on the Danube where one of the first work camps began. It still functions as a prison today. Lovech was started when 160 men went on hunger strike in Belene. ...             Enemies of the State: Personal Stories from the Gulag2 reviews Donald T. Critchlow Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003 FABULOUS BUT PAINFUL HISTORY + The Collection of Personal Tales "Enemies of the State" provides a riveting look into the slave-labor prisons of the Communist world during several decades of the 20th century. It brings history alive to a whole new generation of Americans who may be only vaguely aware of the oppression, torture and viciousness imposed on their ...             The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag Hoover Institution Press, 2003 Until now, there has been little scholarly analysis of the Soviet Gulag as an economic, social, and political institution, primarily owing to a lack of data. This collection presents the results of years of research by Western and Russian scholars. The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies as they examine The various forms of coercion and the channels through which ...             Surviving Indonesia's Gulag: A Western Woman Tells Her Story (Global Issues) Carmel Budiardjo Cassell, 1996             The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956103 reviews Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002 The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State + A STYLISTIC ACHIEVEMENT ALSO + slightly boring at times + The book above them all, but with a twitch             Gulag: A History72 reviews Anne Applebaum Anchor, 2004 Like science fiction--portrays a strange yet familiar world. + Could I have some coffee please? + An Unparalleled Look at Life and Death in Stalin's Death Camps! + The big and the small prison zone             Eighteen Layers of Hell: Stories from the Chinese Gulag (Global Issues)2 reviews Kate Saunders Cassell, 1996 fab-u-lous + Excellent Book I have to say that this is a truly fantastic book! When I first bought it I have to admit I thought It was by the `other' Kate Saunders (the not quite so famous romantic author)-I have to admit I thought it was a funny title for a romance!!- but despite my usual preference for the softer side of ...             American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons2 reviews Mark Dow University of California Press, 2004 Systemic Abuse + learn the way it really is Given the current focus on the mistreatment and torture of detainees in Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere and the debate over the origins of this abhorrent behavior, this is a very timely book. As well as describing the Kafkaesque intricacies of recent Immigration law, Dow documents the mistreatment ...             The Gulag Arizona J. Hada, David White Pentland Press (NC), 2000             Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps Tomasz Kizny Firefly Books, 2004 A historic photographic record of the Soviet Gulag and its legacy. The Gulag was a network of labor camps and penal colonies run by the Soviet security organizations. While forced labor and internal exile had a long history in Russia, the Gulag evolved into a devastating tool of political suppression and massive industrial production. From the early years of the Revolution to the final ...             An American GULAG : Secret P.O.W. Camps for Teens11 reviews Alexia Parks Education Exchange, 2000 The silence must end + Parents who can't be called parents + Well rounded, informative, and entertaining all at the same + Emotional, educational and deathly important             Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag1 review Janusz Bardach, Kathleen Gleeson University of California Press, 2003 Interesting but not as insightful as the author's first book Skip this book and just read "Kolyma Tales" or "Man is Wolf to Man." The author is genuine and sincere but rambles on endlessly about information that is quite boring and not pertaining to his life in the Gulag. It was difficult to follow his ideas after chapter 2.             Man Is Wolf to Man Janusz Bardach Scribner, 1999             Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System (New Russian History) Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova M.E. Sharpe, 2000