by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483104088
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«Archipiélago Gulag I» is the historical essay by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (840 pages, in Spanish).
Solzhenitsyn, who was confined in one of those camps, reconstructs the Soviet network of internment and punishment where millions of people were held and life in the penitentiary industry the regime used to silence dissent. This first volume brings together the first two parts: «La industria penitenciaria» and «Perpetuum mobile».
First volume of the trilogy «Archipiélago Gulag», in the collection «Tiempo de Memoria». The translation is based on the 1980 edition, revised and expanded by the author and considered by him the definitive one.
Reference work for readers of contemporary history, testimonies of totalitarianism and non-fiction accounts about the Soviet Union.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.
