Books like Gulag

Gulag by Anne Applebaum reads as harrowing, factual. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The great terror

Robert Conquest · 1968

Both explore totalitarianism & human rights

69% genome match

Fear no evil

Anatoly Shcharansky · 1988

Both explore human rights & soviet union

67% genome match

Stalin

Simon Sebag-Montefiore · 2003

Both explore totalitarianism & soviet union

66% genome match

Life and death in Shanghai

Nien Cheng · 1986

Both explore survival & human rights

66% genome match

Kolymskie rasskazy

Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov · 1978

Both explore survival & totalitarianism

66% genome match

Behind the Urals

Scott, John · 1942

Both explore soviet union & totalitarianism

67% genome match

The road

Василий Семёнович Гроссман · 2010

Both explore suffering & totalitarianism

67% genome match

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder · 2010

Both explore totalitarianism

61% genome match

The Russian Revolution

Richard Pipes · 1990

Both explore totalitarianism

61% genome match

Coming Out of the Ice

Victor Herman · 1979

Both explore survival & human rights

66% genome match

Stalin and Stalinism

Wood, Alan · 1990

Both explore soviet union & totalitarianism

64% genome match

Stalin

Oleg V. Khlevniuk · 2015

Both explore totalitarianism

63% genome match