Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn

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Book cover for Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn

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"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --Time

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. 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

Critical Reviews

"Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. ... A powerful chronicle. ... A testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit." -- Newsweek, on Volume II

"Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century" -- Time magazine

"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

Publishing Information

Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pub date: 2007-08-07
Length: 752 pages

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