The First Circle

Name: The First Circle
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Novel of Soviet scientists in a secret research prison and their moral compromises

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Russian author and Nobel laureate who exposed the Soviet Gulag system in works that shook the world. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago are defining texts of Cold War dissident literature.

More by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichNovella chronicling a single day in the life of a Soviet labor camp prisoner
The Gulag ArchipelagoMonumental documentary history of the Soviet Gulag system and political repression machinery
Cancer WardNovel set in Soviet cancer ward exploring mortality, politics, and human dignity
In the First Circle