Download or read book The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: pt. 1. The prison industry written by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917. This first volume involves us in the innocent victim's arrest and preliminary detention and the stages by which he is transferred across the breadth of the Soviet Union to his ultimate destination: the hard labor camp."--Publisher's description