{"product_id":"the-gulag-archipelago-aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn-9780061253805","title":"The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20\u003csup\u003eTH\u003c\/sup\u003e CENTURY\" --\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the \"welcome\" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.\" --George F. Kennan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece. ... \u003cem\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/em\u003e helped create the world we live in today.\" --Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eGulag: A History\u003c\/em\u003e, from the foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0061253804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061253805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/21\/2008 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/18\/2008 pg. 63","brand":"Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053226881279,"sku":"9780061253805","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4664df09-f64a-4697-8c4e-22bae49f3020.jpg?v=1685023150","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gulag-archipelago-aleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn-9780061253805","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}