“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