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 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

Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece… . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today. –Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword