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Scammell, Michael.
Solzhenitsyn : a biography / Michael Scammell. -
1st ed.. -
New York : Norton, c1984.
1051 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Map on lining papers.
Content notes : Out of chaos and suffering -- Childhood -- Farewell to the old world -- Writer and communist -- Marriage -- Fighting for the fatherland -- Arrest -- An enemy of the toiling masses -- Two are an organization -- First steps in the Archipelago -- To the new Jerusalem -- Life among the trusties -- Special-assignment prisoner -- In the first circle -- The parting of the ways -- Not quite Siberia -- A son of Gulag -- Exiled "in perpetuity" -- Cancer ward -- Matryona's place -- The schoolmaster from Ryazan -- On the threshold -- Breakthrough -- A true helper of the party -- The crest of the wave -- First doubts -- Lenin Prize candidate -- Not another Pasternak -- Enter the KGB -- The turning point -- A period of adjustment -- The best form of defence -- Letter to the Writers' Congress -- Playing the western card -- Portrait of the artist at fifty -- Expulsion from the Writers' Union -- The taming of Novy Mir -- The Nobel Prize -- The start of a vast enterprise -- Death of a poet -- Whose life is it anyway? -- Divorce -- Coming into the open -- The Gulag Archipelago -- Deported -- First months in the West -- Taking positions -- Clarifications -- On the move -- Talking to the Europeans -- The sage of Vermont -- Epilogue.
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* Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich,, 1918-2008. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich,, 1918-2008. Solzenicyn, Aleksandr I.
* Authors, Russian - Biography. - 20th century Écrivains russes - Biographies. - 20e siècle Biographie