The Gulag Archipelago: Volume 2
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few books have shaken the conscience of the modern world as profoundly as The Gulag Archipelago, and Volume 2 continues Alexander Solzhenitsyn's monumental and devastating chronicle of the Soviet forced labour camp system. Drawing on his own harrowing years of imprisonment, the testimonies of 227 fellow survivors, and a vast array of smuggled documents, Solzhenitsyn maps the vast machinery of state terror — the arrests, the interrogations, the transport ships, and the slow death of the camps — with the precision of a historian and the moral fury of a witness. This second volume intensifies the narrative's scope, detailing the expansion of the Gulag under Stalin and the systematic dehumanisation of millions of Soviet citizens deemed enemies of the state. Solzhenitsyn's prose is relentless and searing, blending memoir, polemic, and documentary evidence into a literary form entirely his own — one that obliterates the boundary between personal testimony and national indictment. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Solzhenitsyn produced a work that the Soviet authorities desperately tried to suppress, making the question of how such a system endures in silence all the more urgent and unresolved.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Paperback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few books have shaken the conscience of the modern world as profoundly as The Gulag Archipelago, and Volume 2 continues Alexander Solzhenitsyn's monumental and devastating chronicle of the Soviet forced labour camp system. Drawing on his own harrowing years of imprisonment, the testimonies of 227 fellow survivors, and a vast array of smuggled documents, Solzhenitsyn maps the vast machinery of state terror — the arrests, the interrogations, the transport ships, and the slow death of the camps — with the precision of a historian and the moral fury of a witness. This second volume intensifies the narrative's scope, detailing the expansion of the Gulag under Stalin and the systematic dehumanisation of millions of Soviet citizens deemed enemies of the state. Solzhenitsyn's prose is relentless and searing, blending memoir, polemic, and documentary evidence into a literary form entirely his own — one that obliterates the boundary between personal testimony and national indictment. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Solzhenitsyn produced a work that the Soviet authorities desperately tried to suppress, making the question of how such a system endures in silence all the more urgent and unresolved.