Paperback, 718 pages
English language
Published Jan. 17, 1997 by Westview Press.
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Two)
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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
- European history: from c 1900 -
- Political imprisonment
- Inter-war period, 1918-1939
- Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
- Second World War, 1939-1945
- Penology
- GULag NKVD
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Literary Criticism
- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
- Political prisoners
- Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Concentration camps
- Prisons
- Soviet Union