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FPT ISBN 0-3T3-0:LA02-M > $2^5 Solzhenitsyn A BIOGRAPHY Michael Scammell Millions know the name of Russia’s most famous living novelist, and the world watched for years as he waged his single- handed struggle against the might of the Soviet government. In the end he was expel¬ led, but not before he had written his searing exposure of Stalin’s labor camps. The Gulag Archipelago, and been awarded the highest honor a writer can hope for, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Few realize, however, that from his earliest days, when he was born, fatherless, in the midst of the Russian civil war, Solzhenitsyn’s life was every bit as dramatic as one of his novels. Here is the first full biography of this towering, controversial figure, and it illumi¬ nates not only the personal triumphs and crises but the complex historical and cultural background, against which Solzhenitsyn’s life emerges as emblematic of the history of Russia in the twentieth century. Much of the material in this book is new and was made available to the author by Sol¬ zhenitsyn and his family. Solzhenitsyn was interviewed at length, but this is not an autho¬ rized biography. JACKET DESIGN BY JAY J. SMITH JACKET PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT UZAN, GAMMA/LIAISON 9-84 D N A L O P V / d S V j SOLZHENITSYN Solzhenitsyn during his first months as a prisoner (Sevil)
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