The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pages

1218

Rating

4.49

Year

1973

PhilosophyHistoryMemoirBiographyClassicsPolitics

Description

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.

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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