The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"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?

• Totalitarianism Exposed: A firsthand account of the Gulag system, offering a powerful and unflinching indictment of the Soviet political regime.
• Resistance from Within: A moving narrative of the rebellions, uprisings, and quiet acts of defiance that occurred inside the brutal labor camps.
• A Dissident's Journey: The deeply personal story of Solzhenitsyn's own release and exile after eight years of imprisonment.
• 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.