<p>In the First Circle depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research and development bureau made of GULAG inmates) located in the Moscow suburbs. This novel is highly autobiographical. Many of the prisoners (zeks) are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code in Joseph Stalin's purges following the Second World War. Unlike inhabitants of other gulag labor camps, the sharashka zeks were adequately fed and enjoyed good working conditions; however, if they found disfavor with the authorities, they could be instantly shipped to Siberia.\nThe title is an allusion to Dante's first circle, or limbo of Hell in The Divine Comedy, wherein the philosophers of Greece, and other virtuous pagans, live in a walled green garden. They are unable to enter Heaven, as they were born before Christ, but enjoy a small space of relative freedom in the heart of Hell.</p>

The First Circle

SOLZHENITSYN, ALEKSANDR

Harper&Row

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 An Experiment in Literary Investigation III-IV Volume 2 (Two)

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Whitney, Thomas Porter

Arts & Literature

HarperTrade

The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labor camp system. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a gulag labor camp. Written between 1958 and 1968, it was published in the West in 1973 and thereafter circulated in samizdat (underground publication) form in the Soviet Union until its appearance in the Russian literary journal, Novy Mir, in 1989, in which a third of the work was published over three issues.

Gulag Archipelago 1918 - 1956 * An Experiment In Literary Investigation

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Perennial Library

From Under the Rubble

History

Russia

Bantam]

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An experiment in literary investigation

Social Sciences

Fontana

First Circle (Flamingo)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

HarperCollins Distribution Services

<p>‘One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world’ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\nIn the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive leadership the Russian troops battle desperately, even as the inevitability of failure and their own sacrifice dawns. Solzhenitsyn’s astounding work of historical fiction is a portrait of pre-revolutionary Russia, a tragic war story, and an epic novel in the great Russian tradition.</p>

August 1914 (Vintage Classics)

Literary

Vintage Classics

Every story here bears the mark of a master craftsman writing in the great classical tradition of Russian literature. The sixteen prose poems, products of a profound epigrammatic imagination, show an aspect of Solzhenitsyn's unrivaled talent unfamiliar to readers in the West. This is a book that no one who has been moved and excited by Solzhenitsyn's great novels can afford to miss.

Stories and Prose Poems

Penguin

Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.

Cancer Ward (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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