{"product_id":"the-gulag-archipelago-volume-1-an-experiment-in-literary-investigation-gulag-archipelago-1918-1956-01","title":"The Gulag Archipelago [Vol 1: 1918-1956 #01} An Experiment in Literary Investigation  1918-1956 #01","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20\u003csup\u003eTH\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCENTURY.\" --\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.\" --George F. Kennan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece. . . .\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehelped create the world we live in today.\" --Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGulag: A History\u003c\/em\u003e, from the foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge F. Kennan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Remnick, The New Yorker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece. ...\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehelped create the world we live in today.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGulag: A History\u003c\/em\u003e, from the foreword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, \u003cstrong\u003eAleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn \u003c\/strong\u003e(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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarper Perennial\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePub Date:\u003cspan\u003e August 07, 2007\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1.9\" H x 7.9\" L x 5.1\" W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e704 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952471634106,"sku":"9780061253713","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/GULAG1.jpg?v=1751057031","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-gulag-archipelago-volume-1-an-experiment-in-literary-investigation-gulag-archipelago-1918-1956-01","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}