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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 2] by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 2]

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 27, 2020

Reading lane: Russian Lit Crit

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH CENTURY.” — Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade.

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Literary Inquiry

A grave, searching read that treats history as literature and literature as inquiry.

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  • literary investigation, not just record
  • serious, layered immersion

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  • prestige-critical register
  • Soviet-era history with analytical force

Book Details

Authors
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
October 27, 2020
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Russian Lit Crit · Eastern European History
Reading lane
Russian Lit Crit

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  • Communism & Socialism

About This Book

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH CENTURY.” — Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. 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 consciou...

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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20 TH CENTURY.” — Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. 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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