The first circle

Description:

Written from his own experiences this short novel focuses on the lives of a group of political prisoners held in a sharashka, a research & development laboratory near Moscow manned by engineers & technicians plucked from the gulags to perform work for the state.

subjects: Soviet union, fiction,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, historical,  Fiction,  Russian fiction,  Political fiction,  Prison Life in Fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Politics and government,  Political persecution,  History,  PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy),  CHR 1968,  Straflager,  Wissenschaftler,  Prison,  Fiction, political

People: Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)

Places: Moscow,  Soviet Union,  Russia

Times: 20th century,  1936-1953,  1917-1936,  1940-1952