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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn’s moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. 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, 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
How does one survive–and resist–the unimaginable?
- Totalitarianism Exposed:A firsthand account of the Gulag system, offering a powerful and unflinching indictment of the Soviet political regime.
- Resistance from Within:A moving narrative of the rebellions, uprisings, and quiet acts of defiance that occurred inside the brutal labor camps.
- A Dissident’s Journey:The deeply personal story of Solzhenitsyn’s own release and exile after eight years of imprisonment.
- Definitive Historical Account:The culminating volume of a work that shaped the moral consciousness of the late twentieth century, presented with a new foreword by historian Anne Applebaum.
Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 8/7/2007
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1 lbs
Size: 7.9″ H x 5.2″ L x 1.9″ W
ISBN: 9780061253737
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