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The Gulag Archipelago 1918 - 1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Vol 1
The Gulag Archipelago 1918 1956 An Experiment in Literary Investigation Vol 1 Author:Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator) Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. — Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we en... more »counter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations,and the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 is a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle.« less