An edition of Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (1970)

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

an experiment in literary investigation

1st Perennial Classics ed.

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An edition of Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (1970)

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

an experiment in literary investigation

1st Perennial Classics ed.

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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's 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 Solzhenitsyn's 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 author's wish and with his full co-operation.

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Political prisoners Concentration camps Prisons Political prisoners, soviet union Prisons, soviet union GULag NKVD Prisonniers politiques European history: from c 1900 - Political imprisonment Inter-war period, 1918-1939 Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000 Second World War, 1939-1945 Literary Criticism Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union History - General History Penology Literature - Classics / Criticism Criminal law Politics and government Fiction Personal narratives Biography History Russie Political prisoners Russia Stalinismus Sowjetunion Geschichte Arbeitslager Politics social science Sociology Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Authors, biography Authors, russian Soviet union, social conditions Soviet union, history, 20th century Literature Soviet union, history Internment camps Nazi concentration camps Prisons--soviet union Political prisoners--soviet union Concentration camps--soviet union Hv9713 .s6413 2007 365/.45/0947 Prisoners

People

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn (1918-2008)

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Soviet Union Russia

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20th century

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Table of Contents

Contents.
Page ix
Foreword to the Abridgment.
Page xiii
Introduction to the Perennial Classics Edition.
Page xv
Author's Note.
Page xxiii
PART I. The Prison Industry
Page 38
Chapter 1. Arrest
Page 40
Chapter 2. The History of Our Sewage Disposal System
Page 56
Chapter 3. The Interrogation
Page 76
Chapter 4. The Bluecaps
Page 103
Chapter 5. First Cell, First Love
Page 119
Chapter 6. That Spring
Page 133
Chapter 7. In the Engine Room
Page 150
Chapter 8. The Law as a Child
Page 157
Chapter 9. The Law Becomes a Man
Page 159
Chapter 10. The Law Matures
Page 160
Chapter 11. The Supreme Measure
Page 166
Chapter 12. Tyurzak
Page 174
PART II. Perpetual Motion
Page 184
Chapter 1. The Ships of the Archipelago
Page 186
Chapter 2. The Ports of the Archipelago
Page 196
Chapter 3. The Slave Caravans
Page 203
Chapter 4. From Is la1id to Is land
Page 210
PART III. The Destructive-Labor Camps
Page 212
Chapter 1. The Fingers of Aurora
Page 214
Chapter 2. The ArchipelagoRises from the Sea
Page 218
Chapter 3. The Archipelago Metastasizes
Page 230
Chapter 4. The Archipelago Hardens
Page 247
Chapter 5. What the Archipelago Stands On
Page 251
Chapter 6. "They've Brought the Fascists!"
Page 256
Chapter 7. The Way of Life and Customs of the Natives
Page 257
Chapter 8. Women in Camp
Page 268
Chapter 9. The Trusties
Page 275
Chapter 10. In Place of Politicals
Page 276
Chapter 11. The Loyalists
Page 279
Chapter 12. Knock, Knock, Knock...
Page 284
Chapter 13. Hand Over Your Second Skin Too!
Page 286
Chapter 14. Changing One's Fate!
Page 291
Chapter 15. Punishments
Page 295
Chapter 16. The Socially Friendly
Page 298
Chapter 17. The Kids
Page 303
Chapter 18. The Muses in Gulag
Page 316
Chapter 19. The Zeks as a Nation
Page 317
Chapter 20. The Dogs' Service
Page 318
Chapter 21. Campside
Page 325
PART IV. The Soul and Barbed Wire
Page 334
Chapter 1. The Ascent
Page 336
Chapter 2. Or Corruption?
Page 351
Chapter 3. Our Muzzled Freedom
Page 357
PART V. Katorga
Page 366
Chapter 1. The Doomed
Page 368
Chapter 2. The First Whiff of Revolution
Page 381
Chapter 3. Chains, Chains...
Page 382
Chapter 4. Why Did We Stand For It?
Page 385
Chapter 5. Poetry Under a Tombstone, Truth Under a Stone
Page 392
Chapter 6. The Committed Escaper
Page 398
Chapter 7. The White Kitten (Georgi Tenno's Tale)
Page 415
Chapter 8. Escapes - Morale and Mechanics
Page 416
Chapter 9. The Kids with Tommy Guns
Page 420
Chapter 10. Behind the Wire the Ground Is Burning
Page 423
Chapter 11. Tearing at the Chains
Page 430
Chapter 12. The Forty Days of Kengir
Page 440
PART VI. Exile
Page 456
Chapter 1. Exile in the First Years of Freedom
Page 458
Chapter 2. The Peasant Plague
Page 461
Chapter 3. The Ranks of Exile Thicken
Page 470
Chapter 4. Nations in Exile
Page 473
Chapter 5. End of Sentence
Page 476
Chapter 6. The Good Life in Exile
Page 480
Chapter 7. Zeks at Liberty
Page 481
PART VII. Stalin Is No More
Page 486
Chapter 1. Looking Back on It All
Page 488
Chapter 2. Rulers Change, the Archipelago Remains
Page 491
Chapter 3. The Law Today
Page 495
Afterword.
Page 506
P.P.S.
Page 508
About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Page 510

Edition Notes

Previously published: New York : Harper & Row, 1985.

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New York
Series
Perennial classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
365/.45/0947
Library of Congress
HV9713 .S6413 2002, HV9713.S6413 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 472 p. :
Number of pages
472

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Open Library
OL21477150M
ISBN 10
0060007761
LCCN
2001046504
OCLC/WorldCat
47718032
LibraryThing
3580861
Goodreads
70561

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Work ID
OL272388W
Wikidata
Q369944
BookBrainz
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LibraryThing
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