The Gulag Archipelago - 50th Anniversary Abridged Edition

''[ The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated'' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATALIA SOLZHENITSYN 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. ''Solzhenitsyn''s masterpiece... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today'' Anne Applebaum THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III

Product details

• Authors: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2023
• EAN: 9781784878740
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-874-0
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Russia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: historical, political & military, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Slavery and abolition of slavery