TY - BOOK AU - SOLZHENITSYN Aleksandr TI - The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation SN - 186046632X (hbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Harvill Press KW - GULAGS KW - LABOUR CAMPS KW - SOVIET UNION N2 - Based on the authors's own recollections of eleven years in labour camps and internal exile, and the testimony of some 200 survivors, this book tells the story of Stalinist Russia's vast sub world of prisons, transit centres and labour camps. This edition has been abridged from the original three volumes into a single volume by Edward E Ericson with the collaboration of the author ER -