The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

Download or read book The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 written by Александр Исаевич Солженицын and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.