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Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are the author’s own. Every effort has been made to find copyright holders. The author and publishers welcome any additions or corrections.

W.W. Norton: from “The Son Does Not Answer for the Father,” by Alexander Tvardovsky, translated by Vera Dunham; from “Children of the Cult,” by Andrei Voznesensky, tranlated by Vera Dunham; from “The Lower Camp,” by Elana Vladimirovca, translated by Vera Dunham; from “Stalin is Not Dead,” by Boris Chichibabin, translated by Vera Dunham; from
An End to Silence:
Uncensored Opinion in the Soviet Union from Roy Medvedev’s Underground Magazine Political Diary
, edited by Stephen F. Cohen, translated by George Saunders. Copyright © 1982 by W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. Used by permission of W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

Leonid Sitko: “I was a soldier, now I’m a convict” and “There were four roads,” from
Tiazhest
Sveta
. Copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Leonid Sitko.

Polska Fundacja Kulturalna: “Willow Trees in Alma-Ata,” from Gułag Polskich Poetów, Copyright © 2001 by Polska Fundacja Kulturalna. Used by permission of Polska Fundacja Kulturalna. “Good-bye to the Camp,” from Gułag Polskich Poetów, Copyright © 2001 by Polska Fundacja Kulturalna. Used by permission of Polska Fundacja Kulturalna.

Vozvraschenie: “What Does It Mean—Exhaustion?” from
Memoria
by Nina Gagen-Torn, Copyright © 1994, Vozvraschenie. Used by permission of Vozvraschenie and Galina Gagen-Torn. “Even our wives didn’t feel sorry for us,” by Yuri Dombrovsky, from
Menya Khoteli Ubit, Eti Suki
, Copyright © 1997, Vozvraschenie. Used by permission of Vozvraschenie and Klara Dombrovskaya. “In the Prison-Camp Barracks,” by Anna Barkova, from
Dodnes Tiagoteet
, Copyright © Sovetskii Pisatel. Used by permission of Vozvraschenie.

Simeon Vilensky: “The Sound of a Distant Bell,” 1948. Used by permission of Simeon Vilensky.

“Requiem 1935–1940,” from
Poems of Akhmatova
, by Anna Akhmatova. Translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Copyright © 1967 by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Used by permission of Darhansoff, Verrill, Feldman Literary Agents.

Excerpt from
Prison Poems
, by Yuli Daniel. Translated by David Burg and Arthur Boyars. Copyright © 1971 by David Burg and Arthur Boyars. Used by permission of Marion Boyars Publishers.

“The Statue’s Sundered Plinth,” by Alexander Tvardovksy. Translated by George Reavey. From
The New Russian Poets: 1953–1968; an Anthology
by George Reavey. Copyright © 1981 by George Reavey. Used by permission of Marion Boyars Publishers.

Varlam Shalamov: “Toast to the Ayan Uryakh River” and “To a Poet” used by permission of Iraida Sirotinskaya. “I am poor, alone and naked,” from
Neskolko Moikh Zhizn
, copyright © 1996 by Respublika, used by permission of Iraida Sirotinskaya.

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Collection of Yuri Brodksy: photographs 2a,
2
b, 3a, 3b.

Memorial Society: photographs 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 12a. Drawings by Benjamin Mkrtchyan, Ivan Sukhanov, Sergei Reikhenberg, Yula-Imar Sooster, and Aleksei Merekov.

The David King Collection: photographs 6a, 6b, 11a, opposite title page.

GARF: photographs 7b, 9b, 11b, 12b, 13a, 13b, 15a, 16a, 16b, cover.

KARTA Society: photographs 8a, 8b, 8c, 9a, 10a, 10b.

The Hoover Institution: photographs 14a, 14b. Drawings by Thomas Sgovio.

Anne Applebaum

GULAG

Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of
The
Washington Post
. A graduate of Yale and a Marshall Scholar, she has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the
Spectator
(London), as the Warsaw correspondent for
The Economist
, and as a columnist for the online magazine
Slate,
as well as for several British newspapers. Her work has also appeared in
The New York Review of Books
,
Foreign Affairs
, and
The Wall Street
Journal
, among many other publications. Applebaum lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Radek Sikorski, and two children.

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