Gulag Archipelago

Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780060805036.

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyns masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyns own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the authors wish and with his full co-operation.