在古拉格的劳改营里，气象学家范根海姆坚持给年幼的女儿艾莱奥诺拉寄去小画、标本、谜语，直到被处死的前夜。范根格安姆不是这么刚烈的人。他爱家庭，尤其怜爱他的女儿，他的“小星星”。他热爱他的工作，大概也热爱他生活的时代，这个人，也许不够有怀疑精神，和所有人一样，有他的正直和忠 诚，也有他的盲从和轻信。气象学家的故事，以及其他所有在壕沟深处被枪决的无辜者的故事，在某种意义上也是我们的故事的一部分，因为和他们一起被屠杀的，是我们（我们的父母，我们之前的一代人）曾经共享的希望，是我们曾经至少在某一刻相信即将变为现实的乌托邦。

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century. Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Finalist for the 2003 National Book Award, Nonfiction.