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 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