{"product_id":"2026200013023-secondhand-the-notebooks-of-sologdin","title":"The Notebooks Of Sologdin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the barbed wire of Stalin's brutal labour camp system, one man refused to surrender his mind — and what he wrote there changed everything. The Notebooks of Sologdin presents the extraordinary memoir and philosophical reflections of Dimitri Panin, a Russian engineer and intellectual who survived the Soviet Gulag and whose real-life experiences inspired Alexander Solzhenitsyn's iconic character Dmitri Sologdin in The First Circle. Translated by John Moore, this remarkable account chronicles Panin's years of imprisonment, his clandestine intellectual labour, and his unyielding resistance to the dehumanising machinery of the Soviet state — a testament to the indomitable power of the human spirit under totalitarian oppression.\n\nPanin writes with the precision of a scientist and the fervour of a philosopher, constructing a worldview forged in suffering and tempered by faith, reason, and defiance. His prose illuminates the moral and existential dimensions of life within the Gulag, offering an insider's account that stands alongside the great dissident literature of the twentieth century. For readers drawn to the intellectual courage of Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, or Ginzburg, this volume poses a haunting question: when the state strips away everything, what remains of the self?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203277365467,"sku":"2026200013023-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/702c51a3-be4f-4b3a-bdf8-d2631daf9154.png?v=1788147274","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013023-secondhand-the-notebooks-of-sologdin","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}