The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement

The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn 'BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY' --Time The 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. '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, The New Yorker Drawing 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