Title: The First Circle
First published: 1988
Description: 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.
Subjects: Soviet union, fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Fiction, Russian fiction, Political fiction, Prison Life in Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Politics and government, Political persecution, History, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), CHR 1968, Straflager, Wissenschaftler, Prison, Fiction, political
Places: Moscow, Soviet Union, Russia
People: Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Time periods: 20th century, 1936-1953, 1917-1936, 1940-1952