The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation /
Drawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English translated from Russian. |
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New York :
Harper and Row,
[1974-78]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | French equivalent / Équivalent français |
| Summary: | Drawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the 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 astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956. Vol. 3 translated by H. Willetts. |
| Physical Description: | 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Awards: | Nobel Prize in Literature, 1970 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0060139145 9780060139148 0060139110 9780060139117 000262253X 9780002622530 0002622548 9780002622547 0002622556 9780002622554 9780061253805 0061253804 0060139129 9780060139124 0060921048 9780060921040 0060803320 9780060803322 |