The First Circle, Part 2
by Alexander Solzjenitsyn
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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 show more state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. show lessTags
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Het verhaal van deel 1 verder gezet. Zoals de straftijden opgelegd aan de gevangenen zo lijkt ook dit boek uitzichtloos door te gaan.
In een tijd dat autoritaire regimes zich als aanvaardbaar alternatief voordoen zijn de ervaringen beschreven door Solzjenitsyn als waarschuwing zeer waardevol.
Willekeur en rechteloosheid en de meegaandheid van de meerderheid houden en hielden moorddadige regimes als de Sovjetunie in stand.
In een tijd dat autoritaire regimes zich als aanvaardbaar alternatief voordoen zijn de ervaringen beschreven door Solzjenitsyn als waarschuwing zeer waardevol.
Willekeur en rechteloosheid en de meegaandheid van de meerderheid houden en hielden moorddadige regimes als de Sovjetunie in stand.
Feb 12, 2024Dutch
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born on December 11, 1918 in Kislovodsk in the northern Caucusus Mountains. He received a degree in physics and math from Rostov University in 1941. He served in the Russian army during World War II but was arrested in 1945 for writing a letter criticizing Stalin. He spent the next decade in prisons and labor camps and, show more later, exile, before being allowed to return to central Russia, where he worked as a high school science teacher. His first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1974, he was arrested for treason and exiled following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. He moved to Switzerland and later the U. S. where he continued to write fiction and history. When the Soviet Union collapsed, he returned to his homeland. His other works include The First Circle and The Cancer Ward. He died due to a heart ailment on August 3, 2008 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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