| ISBN |
9781784871512 (paperback) |
| Name |
Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 author. |
| Uniform title |
Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956. English |
| Title |
The Gulag archipelago 1918-56 : an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr 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. |
| Edition |
[Vintage] edition. |
| Published |
London : Vintage, 2018. |
| ©2018 |
| Description |
xxxiv, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| "This work was originally published separately in three volumes under the following titles: The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, I-II, copyright © 1973 by Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn, English language translation copyright © 1973, 1974 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.; The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, III-IV copyright © 1974 by Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn, English language translation copyright © 1975 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.; The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, V-VI, copyright © 1976 by The Russian Social Fund for Peersecuted Persons and Their Families, ©1978 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc." -- Title page verso. |
| "This abridged edition first published in 1985 by Harvill, an imprint of HarperCollions Publishers" -- Title page verso. |
| 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 chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Russian. |
| Subjects |
GULag NKVD. |
| Prisons -- Soviet Union |
| Concentration camps -- Soviet Union |
| Political prisoners -- Soviet Union |
| Other Names |
Whitney, Thomas P. translator. |
| Willetts, H. T. translator. |
| Ericson, Edward E. editor, writer of introduction. |
| Peterson, Jordan B writer of foreword. |
| Series |
Vintage classics (London, England) |
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