Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Perennial Classics) by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn . Unknown Year . English

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

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About the Author

Aleksandr Isayevich[a] Solzhenitsyn (/ˌsoʊlʒəˈniːtsɪn, ˌsɔːl-/; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Solzhenitsyn was afraid to go to Stockholm to receive his award for fear that he wouldn't be allowed to reenter. He was eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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