by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (Author)
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --Time
Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. 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, 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
How does one survive--and resist--the unimaginable?
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Totalitarianism Exposed: A firsthand account of the Gulag system, offering a powerful and unflinching indictment of the Soviet political regime.
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Resistance from Within: A moving narrative of the rebellions, uprisings, and quiet acts of defiance that occurred inside the brutal labor camps.
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A Dissident's Journey: The deeply personal story of Solzhenitsyn's own release and exile after eight years of imprisonment.
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Definitive Historical Account: The culminating volume of a work that shaped the moral consciousness of the late twentieth century, presented with a new foreword by historian Anne Applebaum.
Front Jacket
Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years
--Time magazineBack Jacket
Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years
Number of Pages: 608
Dimensions: 1.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: August 07, 2007