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The gulag archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-20082007
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'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 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile.
Edition:
[Abridged edition] / translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willets ; abridged by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
Imprint:
London : The Harvill Press, [2007]
Collation:
xviii, 472 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Harvill, 1986.This edition of this translation originally published: 1986.
ISBN:
9781843430858 (pbk)
Dewey class:
365.450947365.45365.45094365.4509
LC class:
HV9713
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishRussian
BRN:
645662
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