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

Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling document of his arrest and interrogation, which uncovered to the sector the huge forms of mystery police that haunted Soviet society. Includes a new foreword through Anne Applebaum.

“The best and so much robust unmarried indictment of a political regime ever leveled in brand new instances.” —George F. Kennan

“It’s inconceivable to call a guide that had a better impact at the political and ethical awareness of the overdue 20th century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker

“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. … The Gulag Archipelago helped create the sector we are living in nowadays.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-successful writer of Gulag: A History, from the foreword