The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Vol 1-2) – Solzhenitsyn (1974)

S$59.00

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Vol 1-2) – Solzhenitsyn (1974)

S$59.00

Title: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956. An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (trans)

Publisher: Book Club Associates, London, 1974. Published the same year as the first edition.

Condition: Hardcover, with dust jacket. Very good. Vol 1-2 only. Slight creasing, rubbing and small closed tears to dust jacket. Interior very good. 660pp, app 9″x6″.

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About the book (from Wikipedia):

The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is a three-volume non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1973, and translated into English and French the following year. It covers life in what is often known as the Gulag, the Soviet forced labour camp system, through a narrative constructed from various sources including reports, interviews, statements, diaries, legal documents, and Solzhenitsyn’s own experience as a Gulag prisoner.

Following its publication, the book initially circulated in samizdat underground publication in the Soviet Union until its appearance in the literary journal Novy Mir in 1989, in which a third of the work was published in three issues. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Gulag Archipelago has been officially published in Russia.