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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Volume 3 Unabridged
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▼▲| Title: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Volume 3 Unabridged By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Vendor: Harper Perennial Dimensions: 8 X 5.25 X 1.25 (inches) | Weight: 16 ounces ISBN: 0061253731 ISBN-13: 9780061253737 UPC: 9780061253737 Stock No: WW53735 |
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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.
“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.
Author Bio
▼▲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.
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