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Essential reading for students of history, political science, and Russian studies, as well as anyone interested in human rights, totalitarian regimes, and powerful literary testimonies.
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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 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
Solzhenitsyn's "experiment in literary investigation" stands as a towering monument in 20th-century history, offering:
- A First-Hand Gulag Memoir: Follow Solzhenitsyn's own story, from his shocking arrest as a decorated Red Army captain to his brutal interrogation at the hands of the Soviet secret police.
- Definitive Soviet History: Based on the testimony of 227 witnesses, this work uncovers the true origins of the concentration camp system, arguing it was essential to the state not just under Stalin, but from the first days of Lenin.
- The Bureaucracy of Terror: Journey into the "almost invisible country" of the Gulag, a continent of prisons and camps woven into the fabric of Soviet society and administered by an ever-present secret police.
- An Enduring Literary Masterpiece: Discover the book hailed as the "greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times," a work that forever altered the world's moral consciousness.
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Time called it the "Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century." George F. Kennan described it as "the greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever levelled in modern times." David Remnick of The New Yorker noted its unparalleled effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum praised it as Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece which "helped create the world we live in today."
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ISBN: 9780061253713
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 August 2007
Country: United States
Imprint: HarperPerennial
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 0g
Pages: 704
About the Author
After serving as a decorated captain in the Red Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced in 1945 to eight years of hard labor for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. He vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his long short story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1970. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, just weeks after The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet penal system, first appeared in the West. For eighteen years, he and his family lived in Vermont, where he wrote The Red Wheel. In 1994 he returned home to Moscow, where he died in 2008.
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