The Gulag Archipelago

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

In this masterpiece, the author has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its inception following the October Revolution of 1917. Numerous studies of the Soviet system of control have been published in the West but until now nothing so complete, so carefully documented and assembled, and never before has a literary giant devoted his gifts of narrative and characterization to the enterprise. Solzhenitsyn has here created and peopled with brilliantly portrayed human beings a vast, overarching fresco of that state within a state which is the Gulag Archipelago.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000H22QNU
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"