The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Books III-IV
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Books III-IV
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Desc: 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 repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men women and children -- we 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 1918-1956 -- a grisly indictment of a regime fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.