Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr I. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

'BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.' --Time Volume 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. 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