Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Gulag Archipelago Volume 1

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. KennanIt is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerSolzhenitsyn's masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-294163-3
EAN: 9780062941633
Produktnummer: 34931893
Verlag: Harper Perennial
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 704 S.
Plattform: EPUB
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Über den Autor

After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. Solzhenitsyn vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, the year The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet prison system, first appeared in the West. For eighteen years, he and his family lived in Vermont. In 1994 he returned to Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died at his home in Moscow in 2008.