The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

ALEKSANDR I. SOLZHENITSYN

Literature & Fiction

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Describes individual escapes and attempted escapes from Stalin's camps, a disciplined, sustained resistance put down with tanks after forty days, and the forced removal and extermination of millions of peasants

The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, An Experiment in Literary Investigation III - IV (English and Russian Edition)

History

Russia

Harper&Row

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Vol. 3, Parts 5-7

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Describes individual escapes and attempted escapes from Stalin's camps

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (English and Russian Edition)

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully.
Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 -- a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Perennial

Gulag II is both a powerful chronicle of brutal abuses and at the same time a testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit. The first volume of this work dealt with the arrests, interrogations, and transportaiotn of prisoners to the archipelago camps, a sort of state-within-a-state that stretched geographically from Leningrad to Komsomolsk..Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzheinitsyn spent eight years, having been arrested for writing letters critical of Stalin. Here the extended metaphor of the archipelago is joined by an image that informed Solzhenitsyn's novel The Cancer Ward. Evoking his own experience of cancer, he perceives the camps as a tumor that, in mestastasizing, infected the whole nation with its poison..Solzhenitsyn believes that the individual, armed with Truth and Right alone, can move tyrants, subvert power and alter the course of history.

The Gulag Archipelago Two (1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation III-IV)

The thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, published in full for the first time
"A great and important book, whose qualities are finally fully available to English-speaking readers.” —Washington Post
Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state—or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps . . . and almost certain death.
First written between 1955 and 1958, In the First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's fiction masterpiece. In order to pass through Soviet censors, many essential scenes—including nine full chapters—were cut or altered before it was published in a hastily translated English edition in 1968. Now with the help of the author's most trusted translator, Harry T. Willetts, here for the first time is the complete, definitive English edition of Solzhenitsyn's powerful and magnificent classic.

In the First Circle

United States

Harper-perennial

It is the modern counterpart of Dostoevsky's memoirs..

The First Circle

Contemporary

BANTAM BOOKS

Cancer Ward

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