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Published by Fontana UK, 1974, first published in translation in English in 1973. Translation by Thomas P. Whitney.
This is Volume 1 of The Gulag Archipelago - 'Book 1 & 2 ''The Prison Industry'' and ''Perpetual Motion'' - later editions ( Volume 2 & 3 ) contained books 3-4 & 5,6,7 respectively.
CREASING to spine, bump to back cover. 660 pages and index.
'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph
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.
UNABRIDGED . ( LATER SINGLE VOLUME 'COMBINED' EDITIONS WERE ABRIDGED SLIGHTLY)
