The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation /
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operatio...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Russian |
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New York :
Perennial,
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st Perennial Classics ed. |
| Series: | Perennial classic
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| Summary: | Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. 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. Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle. |
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| Item Description: | Previously published: New York : Harper & Row, 1985. |
| Physical Description: | xxiv, 472 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0060007761 9780060007768 |