The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Description:

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.

subjects: Political prisoners,  Concentration camps,  Prisons,  Political prisoners, soviet union,  Prisons, soviet union,  GULag NKVD,  Prisonniers politiques,  European history: from c 1900 -,  Political imprisonment,  Inter-war period, 1918-1939,  Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000,  Second World War, 1939-1945,  Literary Criticism,  Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union,  History - General History,  Penology,  Literature - Classics / Criticism,  Criminal law,  Politics and government,  Fiction,  Personal narratives,  Biography,  History,  Russie,  Political prisoners Russia,  Stalinismus,  Sowjetunion,  Geschichte,  Arbeitslager,  Politics,  social science,  Sociology,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Authors, biography,  Authors, russian,  Soviet union, social conditions,  Soviet union, history, 20th century,  Literature,  Soviet union, history,  Internment camps,  Nazi concentration camps,  Prisons--soviet union,  Political prisoners--soviet union,  Concentration camps--soviet union,  Hv9713 .s6413 2007,  365/.45/0947,  Prisoners

People: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn (1918-2008)

Places: Soviet Union,  Russia

Times: 20th century