The Gulag Archipelago

Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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HarperPerennial
11 November 2007

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Human rights

"""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"

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Imprint: HarperPerennial
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 205mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780061253713
ISBN 10: 0061253715
Pages: 660
Publication Date: 11 November 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active