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The First Circle (original 1968; edition 1981)

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Title:The First Circle
Authors:Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Info:Bantam (1981), mm Paperback, 674 pages
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Tags:literature, russian literature, 20C literature, novel, totalitarianism, gulag, soviet union, russia, indexed

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The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968)

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    The Gulag Archipelago One by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (editfish)
    editfish: This novel goes beyond the research of 'Gulag' and looks at life in the Sharaska (Paradise Islands) of the Archipelago.
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Another scathing critique of Stalinist Russia with the trappings of a thriller/mystery. A crack team of investigators (all prisoners of the Gulag) is assembled to investigate who leaked nuclear secrets to the Americans. With daring and ingenuity, they eliminate all but two suspects - but there is no further evidence. Both suspects are arrested anyway. Who else but Solzhenitsyn could come up with a novel like this? ( )
  HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 |
La saraska, il primo cerchio dei gironi infernali dell'arcipelago gulag, illustra come i nemici del popolo venissero impiegati in tutta la catena produttiva sovietica, qui si tratta di scienziati che sperimentano nuove tecnologie per identificare la voce umana.
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  Lorenzo_Giannini | Sep 10, 2012 |
La saraska, il primo cerchio dei gironi infernali dell'arcipelago gulag, illustra come i nemici del popolo venissero impiegati in tutta la catena produttiva sovietica, qui si tratta di scienziati che sperimentano nuove tecnologie per identificare la voce umana.
Bello ( )
  Lorenzo_Giannini | Sep 10, 2012 |
La saraska, il primo cerchio dei gironi infernali dell'arcipelago gulag, illustra come i nemici del popolo venissero impiegati in tutta la catena produttiva sovietica, qui si tratta di scienziati che sperimentano nuove tecnologie per identificare la voce umana. Bello ( )
  Lorenzo_Giannini | Jul 19, 2012 |
La saraska, il primo cerchio dei gironi infernali dell'arcipelago gulag, illustra come i nemici del popolo venissero impiegati in tutta la catena produttiva sovietica, qui si tratta di scienziati che sperimentano nuove tecnologie per identificare la voce umana. Bello ( )
  Lorenzo_Giannini | Jul 19, 2012 |
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Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description… (more)

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