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The history of the United Soviet Socialist Republics is a bloody one, especially before and during the time of Stalin. Tens of millions of innocent people were tortured, imprisoned and killed; entire minority populations were targeted. In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn... Read Full Overview

"The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be leveled in modern times". New York Review of Books"Gulag II is both a powerful chronicle of brutal abuses and at the same time a testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit". Newsweek"Here... Read Full Overview

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time

Volume 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... Read Full Overview

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time

Volume 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... Read Full Overview

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time

Volume 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... Read Full Overview