Synopsis
Like the author, the hero, Oleg Kostoglotov, spent many years in labour camps and was eventually transferred to a cancer ward. Both a deeply passionate study of how people confront terminal illness and a definitive dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state, it ranks among the author's most enduring masterpieces.
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Alexsandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk in 1918. Serving as a gunner during WWII, he was arrested in early 1945 and charged with making derogatory remarks about Stalin. He spent the next eight years in labour camps. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, only returning twenty years later. He is the author of THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970. AUGUST 1914 is also available from Penguin.
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