A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.
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Product details

ISBN
9781784871512
Published
2018-10-16
Edition
1. edition
Publisher
SD Books; Vintage
Weight
395 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
33 mm
Age
Voksen
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
544
Original title
Arkhipelag GULag
Genre
Faglitteratur