The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-IV - Hardcover

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060139129 ISBN 13: 9780060139124

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1978

Synopsis

Describes individual escapes and attempted escapes from Stalin's camps, a disciplined, sustained resistance put down with tanks after forty days, and the forced removal and extermination of millions of peasants

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About the Author:

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born into a family of Cossack intellectuals in Kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918. He fought for the Soviet Union in World War II, achieving the rank of captain of artillery. In 1945 he was arrested for writing a letter in which he criticized Joseph Stalin and spent eight years in prisons and labor camps. In 1956 he was allowed to settle in Ryazan, in central Russia, where he became a mathematics teacher and began to write. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Following the publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, he was exiled in 1974. His Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990 and he returned to Russia in 1994, where he now lives.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0060139129
• ISBN 13: 9780060139124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1