{"product_id":"the-gulag-archipelago-von-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn","title":"The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. He graduated in Physics and Mathematics from Rostov University and studied Literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. The publication of \u003ci\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eNovy Mir\u003c\/i\u003e in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels \u003ci\u003eCancer Ward\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe First Circle\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle \u003ci\u003eThe Red Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781784871512\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781784871512","offer_id":48217036325189,"sku":"9781784871512","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/0cdfdd5d-0829-4c84-ad8d-5b99ccc02aa3.jpg?v=1780979153","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-gulag-archipelago-von-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}