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Anne Applebaum's Gulag is a history of the Soviet forced-labor camp system from its origins after the 1917 revolution to its dissolution under Gorbachev. It won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and draws on archives, memoirs and survivor testimony. It is a serious, long work of narrative history, not a memoir or a novel, and it suits readers who want a full account rather than a single survivor's story. It is the standard one-volume history of the camps in English, alongside Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, which is a witness account rather than archival history.
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Reviewers and readers treat it as the definitive single-volume history of the Soviet camps, praising its research and readability. Many call it harrowing but essential. Some find it long and heavy going, and a few want more first-person testimony.