Paperback, 672 pages
English language
Published Aug. 18, 1991 by Perennial.
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Gulag Archipelago)
Alexander Solschenizyn: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Paperback, 1991, Perennial)
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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.
Subjects
- Political oppression & persecution
- Inter-war period, 1918-1939
- Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
- Second World War, 1939-1945
- Prisons
- Political Repression
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - Prose & Criticism
- History - General History
- Russian
- History: World
- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
- Russia (pre & post Soviet Union)
- Penology
- Concentration camps
- Political prisoners
- Soviet Union