Drawing on his own
incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200
fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals
the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state
that ruled all-powerfully.Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its
victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret police
operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of
whole populations, the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had
been German prisoners of war.
Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" -- a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.
Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" -- a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.
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