The Gulag Archipelago Av Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

<p><i>The Gulag Archipelago</i> is Solzhenitsyn''s masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.<br><br>The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn''s own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author''s wish and with his full co-operation.</p>