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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 1] by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 1]

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 7, 2007

Reading lane: Russian Lit Crit

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH 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.

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Literary Inquiry

A cold, exacting inquiry with the weight of history behind every page.

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Authors
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
August 7, 2007
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Russian Lit Crit · Eastern European History
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Russian Lit Crit

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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH 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...

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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH 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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