The Gulag Archipelago
An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$40.57
- Paperback
660 pages
- Release Date
7 August 2007
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780061253713 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0061253715 |
| Author: | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Imprint: | HarperPerennial |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 660 |
| Release Date: | 7 August 2007 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 134mm x 205mm |
| Series: | Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 |
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Critics Review
“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” (Time magazine)
“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” - Time magazine
“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
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) served as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II before being sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. He rose from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. His increasing opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974.
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