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In July 1945 , while in the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow , he was
sentenced by the special board of the NKVD , the secret police , to eight years
hard labour in a prison camp . The verdict was pronounced in his absence , a
standard ...
In July 1945 , while in the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow , he was
sentenced by the special board of the NKVD , the secret police , to eight years
hard labour in a prison camp . The verdict was pronounced in his absence , a
standard ...
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I also wanted to expose the false image of prison camps . While still in the camp I
made up my mind to describe one day of prison life . Tolstoy once said that a
novel can deal with either centuries of European history or a day in one man ' s
life .
I also wanted to expose the false image of prison camps . While still in the camp I
made up my mind to describe one day of prison life . Tolstoy once said that a
novel can deal with either centuries of European history or a day in one man ' s
life .
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... First Circle be published , the novel by Solzhenitsyn whose main action takes
place in a Moscow prison where the technical , engineering and literary
intelligentsia from countless Siberian prisons and camps has been gathered
together ?
... First Circle be published , the novel by Solzhenitsyn whose main action takes
place in a Moscow prison where the technical , engineering and literary
intelligentsia from countless Siberian prisons and camps has been gathered
together ?
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Contents
LITERARY DEBUT | 15 |
Introductory Note | 24 |
Visiting Solzhenitsyn in Ryazan 25 January 1963 | 32 |
Copyright | |
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