The First Circle
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын · 1988
Popularity 27
Written from his own experiences this short novel focuses on the lives of a group of political prisoners held in a sharashka, a research & development laboratory near Moscow manned by engineers & technicians plucked from the gulags to perform work for the state.
Soviet union, fictionContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, historicalFictionRussian fictionPolitical fictionPrison Life in FictionFiction, historical, generalPolitics and governmentPolitical persecutionHistoryPRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)