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The Gulag Archipelago
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It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph
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.
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The Gulag Archipelago is considered an essential work, providing profound insight into the consciousness of its era. Its powerful testimony and warning resonate through its pages, showcasing Solzhenitsyn as a monumental figure in literature and morality. The book is unparalleled in its impact on the political and ethical awareness of the late twentieth century.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781843430858
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 January 2003
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 35.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 483g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918. He was brought up in Rostov, where he graduated in mathematics and physics in 1941. After distinguished service with the Red Army in the Second World War, he was imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for making unfavourable remarks about Josef Stalin. He was rehabilitated in 1956, but in 1969 he was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union for denouncing official censorship of his work. He was forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and deported to West Germany. Later he settled in America, but after Soviet officials finally dropped charges against him in 1991, he returned to his homeland in 1994 and died in August 2008, aged 89. He has written many books, of which One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archipelago are his best known.
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