Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a monumental work that provides a harrowing account of the Soviet Union's labour camp system. Set against a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres, and secret police, the narrative unfolds the grim realities of informers, spies, and interrogators while simultaneously celebrating instances of everyday heroism. This literary masterpiece, based on the testimony...

A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union, now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story of its publication. The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated. — Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph With a new introduction by Natalia Solzhenitsyn. A vast canvas of camps, prisons,...

This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, and the ingenious possibilities of simple items like a nail, a piece of string, or a single match in a time where survival is all. Enter...

Solzhenitsyn's polemical speeches serve as a primer for understanding the moral and political vision of the Nobel Prize winner. 'Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger... to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world? I was...

The official, one-volume edition, authorised by Solzhenitsyn "BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20th CENTURY" — Time The Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Russian history, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorised by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. "It is impossible to...

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY. --Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, this foundational work of Soviet history is Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police and political repression that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. "The greatest and most powerful...

It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres, and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival...