Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
2002Political prisonersConcentration campsPrisonsPolitical prisoners, soviet unionPrisons, soviet union
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How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
About this book
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.
Themes & subjects
Political prisonersConcentration campsPrisonsPolitical prisoners, soviet unionPrisons, soviet unionGULag NKVD
First published 2002Characters & people
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn (1918-2008)
Setting
Soviet UnionRussia20th century
About the author
Александр Солженицын
11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. ([Source][1].) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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