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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1] - (Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956) by Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn (Paperback)
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Highlights
- "BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
- Author(s): Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn
- 704 Pages
- History, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Series Name: Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
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About the Book
"A hardcover edition of htis book was published in 1976 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc."--Title page verso.Book Synopsis
"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
From the Back Cover
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
Review Quotes
"Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century" -- Time magazine
"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