Book 1970

The First Circle

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Publisher: Fontana / Collins
Published: 1970

Fiction
Russian fiction
Political fiction
Prison Life in Fiction
Soviet union, fiction
Fiction, historical, general

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.