The first circle
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney.
Contributors: Whitney, Thomas P.
Edition: Northwestern University Press ed.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Political persecution -- Soviet Union -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction
Description: Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician, lives out his life in post-war Russia in a series of prisons and labor camps where he and his fellow inmates work to meet the demands of Stalin.