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The Gulag Archipelago (Vintage Classics)
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Cover......Page 391
Contents......Page 4
About the Book......Page 7
About the Author......Page 8
Also by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn......Page 9
Maps......Page 10
Dedication......Page 12
Title Page......Page 13
Foreword......Page 15
Foreword to the Abridgment......Page 22
Introduction......Page 23
PART I The Prison Industry......Page 28
1. Arrest......Page 32
2. The History of Our Sewage Disposal System......Page 42
3. The Interrogation......Page 55
4. The Bluecaps......Page 72
5. First Cell, First Love......Page 82
6. That Spring......Page 91
7. In the Engine Room......Page 102
8. The Law as a Child......Page 107
9. The Law Becomes a Man......Page 108
10. The Law Matures......Page 109
11. The Supreme Measure......Page 113
12. Tyurzak......Page 121
PART II Perpetual Motion......Page 127
1. The Ships of the Archipelago......Page 128
2. The Ports of the Archipelago......Page 135
3. The Slave Caravans......Page 139
4. From Island to Island......Page 144
PART III The Destructive-Labor Camps......Page 145
1. The Fingers of Aurora......Page 146
2. The Archipelago Rises from the Sea......Page 149
3. The Archipelago Metastasizes......Page 158
4. The Archipelago Hardens......Page 176
5. What the Archipelago Stands On......Pag The Gulag Archipelago
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Solzhenitsyn A BIOGRAPHY
Michael Scammell Millions know the name of Russia’s most famous living novelist, and the world watched for years as he waged his singlehanded struggle against the might of the Soviet government. In the end he was expel¬ led, but not before he had written his searing exposure of Stalin’s labor camps. The Gulag Archipelago, and been awarded the highest honor a writer can hope for, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Few realize, however, that from his earliest days, when he was born, fatherless, in the midst of the Russian civil war, Solzhenitsyn’s life was every bit as dramatic as one of his novels. Here is the first full biography of this towering, controversial figure, and it illumi¬ nates not only the personal triumphs and crises but the complex historical and cultural background, against which Solzhenitsyn’s life emerges as emblematic of the history of Russia in the twentieth century. Much of the material in this book is new and was made available to the author by Sol¬ zhenitsyn and his family. Solzhenitsyn was interviewed at length, but this is not an autho¬ rized biography.
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