The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
ISBN-10
0060139145
ISBN-13
9780060139148
Category
Concentration camps
Pages
680
Language
English
Published
1974
Publisher
CNIB, 197
Author
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡syn

Description

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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