The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 An Experiment in Literary Investigations I-II (First British Hardcover)

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.

Hardcover. English. Collins & Harvill Press. 1974 First UK Edition. 660 pp. Fore-edges heavily foxed, with tatty damaged dw in protective plastic. Book No: 500163