The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2] : An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]
Author(s): Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20^TH CENTURY.” —Time

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. 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):
“Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. ... A powerful chronicle. ... A testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit.”
“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:  9780061253720