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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." —Time 

Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In Volume 3, Solzhenitsyn gives a moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Foreword by Anne Applebaum.

"The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times." —George F. Kennan, The New York Review of Books

"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 Biography
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. Solzhenitsyn vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; he 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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An Essential Read

If you can get through it, Solzhenitsyn's work is deeply enlightening— of the glimpses of Heaven in this world, and of Hell.