The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pages

701

Rating

4.35

Year

1973

PhilosophyHistoryMemoirBiographyClassicsPolitics

Description

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.

Endorsements

Best nonfiction book of the 20th century — Time

"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

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