The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum, "The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation"
English | ISBN: 0061253715 | 2007 | EPUB | 704 pages | 4 MB
"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