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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 1]
An Experiment in Literary Investigation
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 7, 2007
“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.
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- Who it’s for
- A cold, exacting inquiry with the weight of history behind every page.
- Themes
- political repression, totalitarianism, historical investigation
- Pacing
- Reflective
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“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.
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“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
Literary Inquiry
A cold, exacting inquiry with the weight of history behind every page.
Come here for
- literary investigation
- serious, layered reading
Expect
- classroom-friendly entry point
- sustained, prestige-minded read
Where it sits
| Soviet-Era Russia | 85% |
|---|---|
| Communism & Socialism | 35% |
| Personal Memoirs | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Military Lives
- Women's Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- European History
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- Military History
- Russian History
- World History
- Modern History
- Authors
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 7, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- political repression · totalitarianism · historical investigation
- Reading lane
- Military Lives