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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2] - by Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn (Paperback)
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Highlights
- "BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
- Author(s): Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn
- 752 Pages
- History, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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About the Book
First Harper Perennial edition published 1992.Book Synopsis
"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
From the Back Cover
Volume 2 of the gripping epic masterpiece, The story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for Nearly a decade
Review Quotes
"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