The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡ynPublished1999
Pages472
Formatpaperback
PublisherHarvill Press
Synopsis
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format of VOLUME 1 in vinyl case.] **Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century** In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917. This first volume involves us in the innocent victim's arrest and preliminary detention and the stages by which he is transferred across the breadth of the Soviet Union to his ultimate destination: the hard labor camp.
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About Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
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Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
1918–2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. ([Source][1].) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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