The first circle

674 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 1969 by Bantam Books.

OCLC Number:
871467

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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.

33 editions

Subjects

  • Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 -- Fiction.
  • Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 -- Fiction.