Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society.
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. Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume, authorized by the author.
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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.
Solzhenitsyn used the word archipelago as a. An experiment in literary investigation russian: Pin on across the century The word gulag is a russian acronym for the soviet government agency that supervised the vast network of labour camps.
The gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the s to the s. Catharsis in the reader of the gulag archipelago. A short summary of this paper. A year later the gulag archipelago is deemed mandatory reading by those responsible for establishing the national school curriculum of your home country.
This book was released on 27 october with total page pages. The abridged version is half solzhenitsyn's original, so obviously the editors had to truncate the text to make its message more accessible to the public. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' doris lessing, sunday telegraph with a new foreword by jordan b. Download or read book entitled the gulag archipelago volume 1 written by aleksandr i.
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