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100	1		_aSolzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
245	1	4	_aThe Gulag archipelago, 1918-1956 _b: an experiment in literary investigation I-II _c/ by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney
260			_aNew York _b: Harper & Row _c, 1974, c1973.
300			_a660 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aDrawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.
650		4	_aSoviet Union _x- Politics and Government
650		4	_aPolitical prisoners _z-Russia
999			_c194538 _d194538