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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Paperback
  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Paperback
  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Paperback
  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Paperback
  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Paperback
  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Paperback

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Paperback

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by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (Author)

 

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH 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

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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is a monumental work of history and testimony written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), the Russian novelist, historian, and dissident. A decorated Soviet artillery captain during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested in 1945 for private criticism of Joseph Stalin, sentenced to eight years in the Gulag forced-labor camps, and later exiled internally. After his release and rehabilitation, he collected accounts from hundreds of fellow prisoners and drew on his own experiences to document the Soviet prison camp system.
 Volume 1, subtitled “An Experiment in Literary Investigation,” traces the origins and mechanics of the Gulag from the Bolshevik Revolution through the 1920s and 1930s. It details the machinery of arrest, interrogation, torture, show trials, sentencing, prisoner transports, and the daily reality of camp life, including the vast network of labor camps spread across the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn examines the ideological foundations, bureaucratic processes, and human cost of the system that imprisoned millions.
 A landmark primary source and eyewitness chronicle drawn from personal experience and survivor testimonies, The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1] stands as one of the most important accounts of 20th-century totalitarianism for readers interested in Soviet history, political repression, and the realities of the communist prison camp system.
Number of Pages: 704
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8 x 5.25 IN
Publication Date: August 07, 2007

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