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

By Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Book information

Publisher
Harper / Perennial Classics
Year
2002
ISBN
0060007761, 9780060007768
LCC
HV9713 .S6413 2002
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
60 MB (62843941 bytes)
Edition
Abridged
Pages
xxiv+472\517
Topic
History
Library
OL / IA
DPI
400
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-02-03 13:45:38

Description

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.

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