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The First Circle
Александр Солженицын · 1968 · 618 pages
Soviet union, fictionContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, historicalFictionRussian fictionPolitical fiction
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About this book
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.
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