The Gulag Archipelago, 1918 1956 An Experiment In Literary Investigation

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Harry Willets (Translator); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)

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  • : 9780061253737
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : Harper Perennial
  • : 01 August 2007
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  • : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Harry Willets (Translator); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
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"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time


Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. 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, 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