Author: Zhores A. Medvedev
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140039962
Category : CENSORSHIP
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374534684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobel Prize-winning author's most accessible novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed classic of contemporary literature. First published (in censored form) in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, it is the story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as he struggles to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. On every page of this graphic depiction of Ivan Denisovich's struggles, the pain of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's own decade-long experience in the gulag is apparent—which makes its ultimate tribute to one man's will to triumph over relentless dehumanization all the more moving. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced-work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary works to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first of Solzhenitsyn's novels to be published, it forced both the Soviet Union and the West to confront the Soviet's human rights record, and the novel was specifically mentioned in the presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Above all, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich establishes Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy" (Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times). This unexpurgated, widely acclaimed translation by H. T. Willetts is the only translation authorized by Solzhenitsyn himself.

Author: Žores Aleksandrovič Medvedev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: Zhores A. Medvedev
Publisher: New York : A. A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Žores A. Medvedev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Zhores A. Medvedev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 202

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Author: Zhores A. Medvedev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: Alexander Dolgun
Publisher: Library Development Commission
ISBN: 9780394494975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Alexander Dolgun compelled himself to reconstruct his long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police. As a 22 year old young American, son of one of the American engineers who took jobs in Russia during the depression, He was stopped by Secret Police, and became prisoner of the MGB for 18 months of hell.

Author: Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857730622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. Long kept secret by Soviet repression and censorship, it is now told by renowned author and historian Stephen F. Cohen, who came to know many former Gulag inmates during his frequent trips to Moscow over a period of thirty years. Based on first-hand interviews with the victims themselves and on newly available materials, Cohen provides a powerful narrative of the survivors' post-Gulag saga, from their liberation and return to Soviet society, to their long struggle to salvage what remained of their shattered lives and to obtain justice. Spanning more than fifty years, "The Victims Return" combines individual stories with the fierce political conflicts that raged, both in society and in the Kremlin, over the victims of the terror and the people who had victimized them. This compelling book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.