The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Contributor(s): Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061253715 ISBN-13: 9780061253713 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Essays - Social Science | Penology |
Dewey: 365.450 |
Lexile Measure: 1110 |
Series: Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.25" W x 8" (1.06 lbs) 704 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 1950's |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. |
Contributor Bio(s): Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.: - After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. Solzhenitsyn vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, the year The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet prison system, first appeared in the West. For eighteen years, he and his family lived in Vermont. In 1994 he returned to Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died at his home in Moscow in 2008. |