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It was first published in 1951 in London in the English translation by Andrzej Ciołkosz. [2] In the Polish language, the book was first published in London in 1953, then in Poland by the underground press in 1980, and officially in 1988. The book title, A World Apart is an allusion to the Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, Notes from the House of the ...
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His most famous book, A World Apart, was translated into English by Andrzej Ciolkosz and published with an introduction by Bertrand Russell in 1951 (the 2005 edition would feature an introduction by Anne Applebaum).
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In 1940, Gustav Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labour camp, where he spent the two most horrible years of his life.
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Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart is one of the most important books about Soviet camps and communist ideology in the Stalinist period. First published in English in 1951 and translated into many languages, it was relatively unknown till Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in the 1970s.
A World Apart was published in Russia in 1991. In Italy it was published in 1958 and 1994. Journal Written at Night. Commencing in 1971 and until his death, Herling wrote a literary journal, covering essays, criticism, anecdotes, fiction, and memoir.
Written years before Solzhenitsyn's exposes of Russian prison camps, A World Apart (1951) is Herling's memoir of two years in a 'house of the dead' - a witness to the horrors inflicted upon...
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A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp. In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two most terrible years of his life.
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