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The Gulag Archipelago [volume 3]
An Experiment in Literary Investigation
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 7, 2007
“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.
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- Who it’s for
- A severe, searching investigation that rewards slow reading and careful attention.
- Genres
- Soviet-Era Russia, Penology & Prisons, Russian & Post-Soviet Politics
- Published
- HarperCollins, August 7, 2007
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“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.
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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, 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
Searching Account
A severe, searching investigation that rewards slow reading and careful attention.
Come here for
- literary investigation, not just testimony
- serious, layered read with historical gravity
Expect
- political and literary angles in tandem
- dense, prestige-leaning prose
Where it sits
| Soviet-Era Russia | 91% |
|---|---|
| Russian & Post-Soviet Politics | 29% |
| Penology & Prisons | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Eastern European History
- Russian History
- World History
- Russian Lit Crit
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- Eastern Philosophy
- Communism & Socialism
- How Political Campaigns Work
- Nationalism & Patriotism
- Authors
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 7, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Eastern European History