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Who translated Gulag Archipelago?
The Gulag Archipelago
| Author | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
|---|---|
| Original title | Архипелаг ГУЛАГ |
| Translator | Geneviève Johannet, José Johannet, Nikita Struve (French) Thomas P. Whitney (English) Tian Dawei (Chinese) Francisco Augusto Ferreira, Maria Llistó, and José Augusto Seabra (Portuguese) |
| Country | France |
| Language | Russian |
What is The Gulag Archipelago summary?
“The Gulag Archipelago” is a non-fictional account from and about the other great holocaust of our century–the imprisonment, brutalization and very often murder of tens of millions of innocent Soviet citizens by their own Government, mostly during Stalin’s rule from 1929 to 1953.
When was Gulag Archipelago written?
The Gulag Archipelago, history and memoir of life in the Soviet Union’s prison camp system by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in Paris as Arkhipelag GULag in three volumes (1973–75).
How many pages is The Gulag Archipelago abridged?
528
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| ISBN-13: | 9780061253805 |
|---|---|
| Series: | P.S. Series |
| Edition description: | Abridged Edition |
| Pages: | 528 |
| Sales rank: | 42,941 |
Where was Gulag Archipelago written?
Why is it called the Gulag Archipelago?
Solzhenitsyn used the word archipelago as a metaphor for the camps, which were scattered through the sea of civil society like a chain of islands extending “from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus.”
Should I read the abridged version of the Gulag Archipelago?
The abridged version is still a monumental work, and well worth reading in its own right. I don’t think it is any kind of insult to the author to read this edition. The only insult would be to hold what Solzhenitsyn called “this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.
Why do abridged books exist?
Books are abridged in order to remove questionable content. They may also be abridged in order to reduce the overall size of the material to make it faster to download and faster to finish listening.