The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” –Time

“It’s unattainable to call a e book that had a larger impact on the political and ethical consciousness of the late twentieth century.” –David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing report of 4 many years of terror and oppression, in a single abridged quantity (approved by the creator). Contains a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.Drawing on his personal experiences earlier than, throughout and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on proof supplied by greater than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic energy your entire equipment of Soviet repression, the state throughout the state that when dominated all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. By way of really Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that lady, that child-we encounter the key police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of complete populations, the “welcome” that awaited Russian troopers who had been German prisoners of warfare. But we additionally witness astounding ethical braveness, the incorruptibility with which the occasional particular person or just a few scattered teams, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn’s genius has transmuted this grisly indictment right into a literary miracle.

“The best and strongest single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in fashionable occasions.” –George F. Kennan

“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. … The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we stay in right now.” –Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Gulag: A Historical past, from the foreword