The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1] : An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Author(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan
“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker
“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword
Review(s):
“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century”
“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.”
“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.”
“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. ... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.”
ISBN: 9780061253713