New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1971. First American printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 267, [5] pages. DJ has some wear and soiling. A few pencil marks and erasures noted. A treasury of 22 novellas, short stories and prose poems by the Russian Nobel Prize winner includes the tales, "Matryona's House" and "An Incident at Krechetovka Station." Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter. As a result of the Khrushchev Thaw, Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. He pursued writing novels about repressions in the Soviet Union and his experiences. He published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, with approval from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, which was an account of Stalinist repressions. Solzhenitsyn's last work to be published in the Soviet Union was Matryona's Place in 1963. In 1974 Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship and was flown to West Germany. In 1976, he moved with his family to the U. S. In 1990 his citizenship was restored. Later he returned to Russia, where he remained until his death. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature" More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Book Club Edition. 622, endpaper maps, small stains & soiling to fore-edge, DJ somewhat scuffed and worn: small tears, small pieces missingThis novel about Imperial Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography. More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Book Club Edition. 622, endpaper maps, some fading and soiling to boards & spine, some wear to board corners, ink name inside front flyleafThis novel about Imperial Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography. More