The Gulag in Writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov

The Gulag in Writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 900446848X


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The book offers an account of the two most famous authors of the Gulag: Varlam Shalamov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

Kolyma Tales

Kolyma Tales
Author: Varlan Shalamov
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1994-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141961953


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It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite.

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]
Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062941631


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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker “Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

Return from the Archipelago

Return from the Archipelago
Author: Leona Toker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253337870


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Comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors' memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives -- arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation -- Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into prisoners' experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written.

Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps

Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps
Author: Leona Toker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0253043557


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A literary scholar examines survival narratives from Russian and German concentration camps, shedding new light on testimony in the face of evil. In this illuminating study, Leona Toker demonstrates how Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, especially how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker’s analysis concentrates on the narrative qualities of the works as well as how each text documents the writer’s experience in a form where fictionalized narrative can double as historical testimony. Toker also views these texts against the background of historical information about the Soviet and the Nazi regimes of repression. Writers at the center of this work include Varlam Shalamov, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Ka-Tzetnik, and others, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniya Ginzburg, and Jorge Semprún, illuminate the discussion. Toker also provides context for references to potentially obscure historical events and shows how they form new meaning in the text.

Voices from the Gulag

Voices from the Gulag
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810126558


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"After the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began receiving, and would continue to receive throughout his life, testimonies from fellow survivors of the Gulag. Originally selected by Solzhenitsyn, the memoirs in this volume, by men from a wide variety of occupations and social classes, are an important addition to the literature of the Soviet forced-labor camps. Voices from the Gulag records the experiences of ordinary people - including a circus performer, a teenage boy, and a Red Army soldier - whom a brutal system attempted to erase from memory." --Book Jacket.

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]
Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062941690


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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, New Yorker “Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]
Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062941666


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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker “Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago
Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062941607


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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. 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 woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the “welcome” that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. 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. And Solzhenitsyn’s genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle. “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan “Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780608033204


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