Product Description

Volume 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76959 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-26
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.12" w x 5.31" l, 1.19 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 704 pages

Review
“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” (Time magazine )

Ingram
Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into a work of staggering magnitude. 9 cassettes.

About the Author

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.