The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY. --TimeVolume 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. KennanIt 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 YorkerSolzhenitsyn'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