The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Volume 2 Unabridged

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ISBN: 9780061253720

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

HarperCollins / 2007 / Paperback

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The Gulag Archipelago remains as the one of the most historically impressive works; first circulated by hand, it would eventually cause Solzhenitsyn to flee the country, and emphasize "Human Rights" to the world at large. Categorized as "an experiment in literary investigation", The Gulag Archipelago is comprised of Solzhenitsyn's own memories, as well as those of other camp inmates, official records and interviewees. A memorial to those who died in the camps, this work shows the historical truth of the Gulag, as well as the mark it left on society.
"Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzhenitsyn spent eight years.[P]assionate and sharply ironic.Both a powerful chronicle of brutal abuses and at the same time a testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit." (from Newsweek)

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Title: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Volume 2 Unabridged
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 752
Vendor: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2007

Dimensions: 8 X 5.75 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 3 ounces
ISBN: 0061253723
ISBN-13: 9780061253720
Stock No: WW253720

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

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. 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

Author Bio

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After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. He vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, the year The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet prison system, first appeared in the West. For eighteen years, he and his family lived in Vermont. In 1994 he returned to Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died at his home in Moscow in 2008.

Editorial Reviews

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“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” - Time magazine
“Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. ... A powerful chronicle. ... A testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit.” - Newsweek, on Volume II
“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