Description
| Product ID: | 9781843430858 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Gulag Archipelago |
| Authors: | Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, History, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political oppression and persecution, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Political oppression & persecution, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), Russia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Harvill Secker |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-01-30 |