Aleksandr Soljenitsin

Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature …

Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian …

Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps. His story is …

Arxipèlag Gulag és una obra de l'escriptor rus Aleksandr Soljenitsin que denuncia l'estructura de repressió de l'Estat estalinista i els seus començaments en l'antic Estat leninista Unió de Repúbliques Socialistes Soviètiques. El text, extens, compost per peces autònomes, va ser redactat entre 1958 i 1967 en la …

August 1914 is a novel by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about Imperial Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The novel was completed in 1970, first published in 1971, and an English translation was first published in 1972. The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and …

Arxipèlag Gulag és una obra de l'escriptor rus Aleksandr Soljenitsin que denuncia l'estructura de repressió de l'Estat estalinista i els seus començaments en l'antic Estat leninista Unió de Repúbliques Socialistes Soviètiques. El text, extens, compost per peces autònomes, va ser redactat entre 1958 i 1967 en la …

Arxipèlag Gulag és una obra de l'escriptor rus Aleksandr Soljenitsin que denuncia l'estructura de repressió de l'Estat estalinista i els seus començaments en l'antic Estat leninista Unió de Repúbliques Socialistes Soviètiques. El text, extens, compost per peces autònomes, va ser redactat entre 1958 i 1967 en la …

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The …