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pdf | 40.55 MB | English| Isbn:9780062941633 | Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn | Year: 2020
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Quote:"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." -TimeCategory:History, Awards, European History, Asian History, Russian & Soviet History, 1917-1991 (Soviet Union) - History, 1917 - 1991 (Soviet Union) - History, Russia - History - General & Miscellaneous, Soviet History - General & Miscellaneous, Soviet History - Political Aspects, Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates->1961-1970
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