ISBN:  0060803320
Godina izdanja: 1974
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II
Harper & Row, 1974
660 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, pečat na predlistu, beleške grafitnom olovkom.
Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney.

Drawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the 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 astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn`s genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.

Contents:
[v. 1] pt. I-II
Part I / The prison industry
Arrest
The history of our sewage disposal system
The interrogation
The bluecaps
First cell, first love
That spring
In the engine room
The law as a child
The law becomes a man
The law matures
The supreme measure
Tyurzak
Part II / Perpetual motion
The ships of the archipelago
The ports of the archipelago
The slave caravans
From island to island
Translator`s notes
Glossary : names ; institutions and terms
Index
Illustrations : Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ; Viktor Petrovich Pokrovsky ; Aleksandr Shtrobinder ; Vasily Ivanovich Anichkov ; Aleksandr Andreyevich Svechin ; Mikhail Aleksandrovish Reformatsky ; Yelizaveta Yevgenyevna Anichkova. [v.] 2. pt. III-IV: The destructive labor camps; The soul and barbed wire. [v.] 3. pt. V-VII: Katorga; Exile; Stalin is no more


Nonfiction, History, Aleksandar Solženjicin, Arhipelag Gulag, 0060803320