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| Named Person: | Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn; Thomas P Whitney; H T Willetts |
| ISBN: | 0813332893 9780813332895 0813332907 9780813332901 0813332915 9780813332918 |
| OCLC Number: | 36807246 |
| Notes: | Vol. 3 translated by Harry Willetts. Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1974-1978 (Hardcover ed.). |
| Description: | 3 v. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1, pt. 1. The prison industry. pt. 2. Perpetual motion -- v. 2, pt. 3. The destructive-labor camps. pt. 4. The soul and barbed wire -- v. 3, pt. 5. Katorga. pt. 6. Exile. pt. 7. Stalin is no more. |
| Other Titles: | Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956. |
| Responsibility: | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. |
Abstract:
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.
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