The Gulag Archipelago 1918Ð1956

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Published February 1st 2002 by HarperCollins (first published 1973)

Category: Biography

Pages: 472 pages

ISBN: 9780060007768

Description:
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 repressionÑthe state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victimsÑmen, women, and childrenÑwe encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, 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 1918Ð1956Ña grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracleÑhas now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.