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 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

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Imprint: HarperPerennial
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 205mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 581g
ISBN: 9780061253720
ISBN 10: 0061253723
Pages: 712
Publication Date: 11 November 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Gulag Archipelago: Experiment in Literary Investigation

""Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century"" - Time magazine ""Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. ... A powerful chronicle. ... A testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit."" - Newsweek, on Volume II ""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