Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

By Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Subjects: Criminal law, Sociology, Concentration camps--soviet union, Second World War, 1939-1945, Biography, Politics and government, Political imprisonment, Political prisoners Russia, Prisons--soviet union, Prisons, soviet union, Literature, Politics, Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000, Authors, biography, Sowjetunion, 365/.45/0947, Arbeitslager, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Soviet union, history, 20th century, Soviet union, history, Penology, Political prisoners--soviet union, Geschichte, Internment camps, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Nazi concentration camps, Literary Criticism, Soviet union, social conditions, Stalinismus, Prisonniers politiques, Prisons, European history: from c 1900 -, Inter-war period, 1918-1939, Hv9713 .s6413 2007, Fiction, social science, Political prisoners, soviet union, SOCIAL SCIENCE, GULag NKVD, History - General History, Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Russie, History, Political prisoners, Concentration camps, Personal narratives, Authors, russian

Description: 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.