![]() ![]() ![]() Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp systemâ "particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Source: Publisher Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: ) was a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyn's own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment.Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. ![]() ![]() Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulag's victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. ![]()
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