Tomasz Kizny - Gulag. Life and Death inside the Soviet Concentration Camp - 2004

HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE, BIG PHOTOBOOK "Gulag" with more than 490 (!) pages -
showing the "Life and Death inside the Soviet Concentration Camp" between 1917 and 1990.

Divided into the following 7 chapters:
- Solovki
- The white sea canal
- The vaigach expedition
- The theater in the gulag
- Kolyma
- Vorkuta
- The Road to death

With the original dustjacket.
Book and dustjacket in EXCELLENT, FRESH CONDITION.

"The 'Gulag' was a widespread network of labor camps and penal colonies managed 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.
Gulag is a comprehensive history, with haunting, never-before-seen photographs, essays and arresting first-person accounts of the horrors of life and death in the
camps.
Each chapter gives a detailed historical and pictorial account of a camp or aspect of the Gulag, including: Solovki, the monastery that was the birthplace of the Gulag system; Vaygach, the doomed
"humane" camp; Kolyma and the deadly Siberian gold rush, Vorkuta, the coal mining center above the Arctic Circle and the Road of Death, a doomed northern railway project where thousands of prisoners met their deaths."
(from the publisher)

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"Tomasz Kizny is a Polish photographer and journalist who spent more than fifteen years conducting the research and investigation that led to the publication of Gulag. In 1986 he began collecting eyewitness accounts from former Polish prisoners who had returned to their country after Stalin's death. The collapse of the Soviet system made it possible for him to travel across the former USSR to locate witnesses and see for himself what remained of the dreaded Gulag. He has added his own photographs of the abandoned camps and the survivors to the archival photographs of life in the camps.
Tomasz Kizny was a founding member of Dementi, a clandestine association of independent photographers that was formed after martial law was declared in Poland in 1981."
(from the publisher)

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Firefly Book, New York and Ontorio. 2004. First English edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 290 x 330 mm. 496 pages. Edited by Tomasz Kizny. Prefaces: Norman Davies, Jorge Semprum, Sergei Kovalev. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, very fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, no taped tears, no missing parts; light trace of use. Overall very fine condition.

Great photobook - in great condition.
For the first time published in 2003 by Editions Balland, Editions Acropole, Paris.