The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Narrated by Frederick Davidson

Overview

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20^TH 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

Editorial Reviews

Anne Applebaum

Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. ... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.

Time magazine

Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century

George F. Kennan

The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.

David Remnick

It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.

Time Magazine

"Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177597119
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

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