Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008,
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney (Parts I-IV) and Harry Willets (Parts V-VII) ; abridged by Edward E. Erickson, Jr. - xviii, 472 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Translation of: Arkhipelag Gulag, 1918-1956. Originally published: Harvill, 1986.
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.
Translated from the Russian.
1843430851 9781843430858
Prisons--Soviet Union
Political prisoners--Soviet Union
Concentration camps--Soviet Union
HV9713 / .S6513 2007
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney (Parts I-IV) and Harry Willets (Parts V-VII) ; abridged by Edward E. Erickson, Jr. - xviii, 472 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Translation of: Arkhipelag Gulag, 1918-1956. Originally published: Harvill, 1986.
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.
Translated from the Russian.
1843430851 9781843430858
Prisons--Soviet Union
Political prisoners--Soviet Union
Concentration camps--Soviet Union
HV9713 / .S6513 2007