The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 An Experiment In Literary Investigation
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)
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: 9780061253713
: HarperCollins Publishers
: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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: 07 August 2007
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: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)
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"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