Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]

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Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Literature: history and criticism Far-left political ideologies and movements Left-of-centre democratic ideologies History of other geographical groupings and regions

Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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Language: English

Published by: Harper Perennial

Published on: 27 October 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 704 pages

ISBN: 9780062941633


“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

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