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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the Russian novelist and historian best known for The Gulag Archipelago, his three-volume account of the Soviet forced-labor camp system, first published in Paris in 1973. The page currently lists no deals, so there is no saving to report. The items shown are editions of The Gulag Archipelago, including the full three-volume set and single-volume abridged versions.
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Questions and answers
- What is The Gulag Archipelago about?
- It is Solzhenitsyn's documented history of the Soviet camp system from 1918 to 1956, built from survivor testimony, letters and his own imprisonment. It mixes narrative, legal analysis and memoir across three volumes.
- Which edition of The Gulag Archipelago should I buy?
- The three-volume Harper Perennial set is the complete text. The abridged single volume, around 500 pages, covers the same ground in condensed form for readers who want an overview.
- Is The Gulag Archipelago a novel?
- No. Solzhenitsyn called it an experiment in literary investigation: it is nonfiction, though it uses narrative techniques. His novels include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The First Circle.
- Why was the book banned in the Soviet Union?
- It exposed the scale of the camp system and named officials involved, so it circulated only in samizdat until 1989. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the USSR in 1974.
- What else did Solzhenitsyn write?
- His major works include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), Cancer Ward, The First Circle and the Red Wheel cycle. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.