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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, Vol. 3

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, Vol. 3

An Experiment in Literary Investigation, V-VII

by Frederick DavidsonAleksandr I Solzhenitsyn and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 20/11/2011

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In this final volume of a towering work that is both a literary masterpiece and a living memorial to the untold millions of Soviet martyrs, Solzhenitsyn's epic narrative moves to its astounding and unforeseen climax. We now see that this great cathedral of a book not only commemorates those massed victims but celebrates the unquenched spirit of resistance that flickered and then burst into flame, even in Stalin's "special camps." Of the Archipelago as a whole, Le Monde has said, "It is the epic of our times. An epic is always the creation of an entire people, written by the one person who has the creative power and the genius to become the spokesman for his nation. And in this work, we hear a people speaking through the impassioned, intrepid, ironic, furious, lyrical, brutal, and often tender voice of the narrator."
ISBN:
9781455127634
9781455127634
Category:
European history
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
20-11-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Audiobooks
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
3rd Edition
Dimensions (mm):
155x178x51mm
Weight:
0.5kg
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918. He was brought up in Rostov, where he graduated in mathematics and physics in 1941. After distinguished service with the Red Army in the Second World War, he was imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for making unfavourable remarks about Josef Stalin.

He was rehabilitated in 1956, but in 1969 he was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union for denouncing official censorship of his work. He was forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and deported to West Germany.

Later he settled in America, but after Soviet officials finally dropped charges against him in 1991, he returned to his homeland in 1994. He has written many books, of which One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archipelago are his best known.

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