{"product_id":"the-gulag-archipelago-alexander-solschenizyn","title":"The Gulag Archipelago (Alexander Solschenizyn)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[\u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago]\u003c\/i\u003e helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago \u003c\/i\u003ewas abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...\u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II \u0026amp; III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSolzhenitsyn, Aleksandr\u003cb\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. He graduated in Physics and Mathematics from Rostov University and studied Literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. The publication of \u003ci\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eNovy Mir\u003c\/i\u003e in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe First Circle\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle \u003ci\u003eThe Red Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 544 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65807808823645,"sku":"K070289470","price":16.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7028947000001A.jpg?v=1788492074","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-gulag-archipelago-alexander-solschenizyn","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}