The First Circle

Name: The First Circle
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Novel set in Soviet sharashka prison where scientists conduct research under confinement

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is the most comprehensive and devastating account of the Soviet prison camp system, written at enormous personal risk and published in the West when the author was still in the USSR. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

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