2 Solzhenitsyn Books. The Gulag Archipelago & Solzhenitsyn A Documentary Record

2 Solzhenitsyn Books. The Gulag Archipelago & Solzhenitsyn A Documentary Record 

Author: 1. The Gulag Archipelago: Alexander Solzhenitsyn 2. Solzhenitsyn A Documentary Record: Edited by Leopold Labedz    

Publisher: 1. Collins / Harvill Press & Fontana 2. Penguin Books   

Edition: 1. First 1974 2. Second 1972   

ISBN: Not stated 

Language: English 

Condition: Good. Clean copies with tight binding. Scattered foxing throughout   

Binding: Softcover 

Pages: 1. 660. Print with images. 2. 388   

Additional Information

1. The Gulag Archipelago is a history and memoir of life in the Soviet Union's prison camp system. It was written by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The word Gulag is a Russian acronym for the Soviet government agency that supervised the vast network of labour camps. The book traces the history of the system of forced labour camps that existed in the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1956.

2. Leopold Labedz was an anti-communist journalist and one of the principal champions of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the West. After a period of imprisonment in a Soviet gulag, he served in the Polish Army during WWII, afterward settling in London, where he attended the London School of Economics and later served as Editor of the journal Survey. He frequently campaigned for the Polish Solidarity (Solidarność) union and for political prisoners in the Soviet Union. 

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The Gulag Archipelago | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Leopold Labedz