Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 <br/><br/>
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956. V-VII : an experiment in literary investigation 
/ Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Harry Willets 
 - New York  : Harper & Row  , c1978 
 - x, 558 p.  : ill.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Solzhenitsyn served in the Russian army during World War II but was arrested in 1945 for writing a letter criticizing Stalin. He spent the next decade in prisons and labor camps and, later, exile, before being allowed to return to central Russia, where he taught and wrote. In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1974, he was arrested for treason and exiled following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. He moved to Switzerland and later the U. S. where he continued to write fiction and history. When the Soviet Union collapsed, he returned to his homeland. He died due to a heart ailment on August 3, 2008. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060139129 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political prisoners---Russia
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union----Politics and government
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365.4 SOL