The Gulag Archipelago

<p><i>The Gulag Archipelago</i> is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork a vast canvas of camps prisons transit centres and secret police of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.<br><br>The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.</p>