The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time

“It is not possible 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

The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the creator). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

Drawing on his own experiences before, all the way through and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power all of the apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through in reality Shakespearean portraits of its sufferers-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the name of the game police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the “welcome” that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a couple of scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn’s genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.

 “The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in brand new times.” —George F. Kennan

“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. … The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we are living in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

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