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Drawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that...
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"The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a thorough historical study of this unique and tragic episode in Soviet history. This book presents the first comprehensive, historically accurate account of the camp system. Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk...
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On his release from a gulag in the Soviet Union, a British businessman becomes a teacher in the village of a fellow prisoner who died. Twenty years later he is discovered by his own--the embassy is sending a car. But are they still his own? For Alexander Bayliss, 80, a dilemma. By the author of Hiroshima Joe.
7) Memoirs
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Sakharov, the leader of the Soviet dissenters and a world-renowned human rights activist, recounts his life.
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