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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, author.

Contributor:

Whitney, Thomas P., translator.

Willetts, H. T., translator.

Ericson, Edward E., editor, writer of introduction.

Peterson, Jordan B., writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Political prisoners.

Soviet Union.

GULag NKVD.

Prisons--Soviet Union.

Prisons.

Internment camps--Soviet Union.

Internment camps.

Political prisoners--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Edition:

[Vintage] edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Vintage Classics, 2018.

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.

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.

ISBN:

9781784871512

1784871516

OCLC:

1063669616