The Gulag archipelago 1918-56 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn...
The Gulag archipelago 1918-56 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn...
The Gulag archipelago 1918-56 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts ; abridged and introduced by Edward E. Ericson, Jr ; with a foreword by Jordan B. Peterson.
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London : Vintage, 2018.
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Language
English
Russian
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxxiv, 498 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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Publisher
London : Vintage, 2018.
Edition
Abridged edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
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 chroni...
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The Gulag archipelago 1918-56 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts ; abridged and introduced by Edward E. Ericson, Jr ; with a foreword by Jordan B. Peterson.
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Notes
General note
Vintage classics.
This abridged edition first published in 1985 by Harvill.
Includes index.
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Translated from the Russian.
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Date Copyright
©1985.
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74VKVyyw3oab
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ISBN
9781784871512 pbk. :
DDC
365.4509470904
MMS ID
991024235707702626
