Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
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English
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"In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, the harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength. First published in 1962, it is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history,...
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English
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"Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than two hundred 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." --
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University of South Carolina Press
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English
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In "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant named Zotov is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. He ultimately sends him to a miserable imprisonment because the poor wretch doesn't know the previous name of the city of Stalingrad. "Matryona's House" is the tale of an old peasant woman, whose tenacious struggle against cold, hunger, and greedy relatives is described by a young man who only...
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English
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A largely autobiographical account of a group of people who pass through the cancer wing of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, it is a vivid portrait of individuals in isolation whose collective concern is disease. Through stories of patients and doctors, political prisoners and bureaucrats, the young and the old, it probes the fears and the hopes of an entire cross-section of Soviet society. Cancer ward has been seen as a metaphor for the malignancy...
13) November 1916
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Series
Krasnoe koleso ; knot 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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A novel on the 1917 Russian Revolution, chronicling the events which led up to it. The protagonists are its participants--from peasant to tsar. Part two of a multi-volume epic which began with August 1914.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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On the occasion of his return to the country from which he was expelled twenty years ago, Russia's greatest living writer gives us a succinct and impassioned impression of his beliefs and hopes for his homeland. Beginning with an overview of the last five hundred years of Russian history, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn highlights his country's accomplishments and mistakes, analyzing the disaster of the Soviet years and painting a brutally vivid picture of...