Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts ; abridged by Edward E. Ericson
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st Perennial Classics ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Perennial,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiv, 472 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill., maps, ports. ;
Dimensions
21 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Perennial classics
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Previously published: New York : Harper & Row, 1985
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle