BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Time

Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times. George F. Kennan

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

Solzhenitsyns masterpiece. . . .The Gulag Archipelagohelped create the world we live in today. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofGulag: A History, from the foreword