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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 3] by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 3]

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 7, 2007

Reading lane: Russian Lit Crit

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH 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.

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A severe, searching investigation that rewards slow reading and careful attention.

Come here for

  • literary investigation, not just testimony
  • serious, layered read with historical gravity

Expect

  • political and literary angles in tandem
  • dense, prestige-leaning prose

Book Details

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

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Publisher Categories

  • Eastern European History

  • Russian History

  • World History

  • Russian Lit Crit

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  • Eastern Philosophy

  • Communism & Socialism

  • Political Process / General

  • Nationalism & Patriotism

About This Book

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH 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 consc...

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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH 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. . . . T he 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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