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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, Vol. 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II
| Full title: | the-gulag-archipelago-1918-1956-vol-1-an-experiment-in-literary-investigation-i-ii |
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| ISBN: | 9781470887643 |
| ISBN 10: | 1470887649 |
| Authors: | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Edition: | Unabridged |
| Binding: | Audio CD |
| Language: | en |
| Published on: | 2013 |
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Synopsis
Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of tireless power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917. Volume 1 involves us in the innocent victim's arrest and preliminary detention and the stages by which he is transferred across the breadth of the Soviet Union to his ultimate destination: the hard labor camp.