First Map of the Soviet Gulags British Empire Exhibition 54 x 60 cm

54 x 60 cm

map of Yemen engraved by Defehrt after Martin

The Mill Hill Park (Acton) to Hounslow Barracks branch

Nineteenth century book label: Bishopric of Cornwall

published by Henri Estienne and his son Paul

First Map of the Soviet Gulags British Empire Exhibition 54 x 60 cmThis important map of the Gulag, the Soviet system of forced labour camps, is seemingly the earliest published example of what was to become one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti Communist literature. It was published in a work titled, with heavy irony, Sprawiedliwosc Sowiecka (Soviet Justice), which was also published as La Justice Sovietique and Giustizia Sovietica. There was no English edition, but English may have been chosen as a