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  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn book cover
  • The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn book cover
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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An account of entering the Soviet prison camps

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An account of entering the Soviet prison camps

Volume 2 of Solzhenitsyn’s *The Gulag Archipelago* focuses on his entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where the description says he remained for nearly a decade. The subtitle, “An Experiment in Literary Investigation,” frames the work as an inquiry as well as an account of that experience. This installment offers a focused entry point into the larger work, with its subject rooted in Soviet history and the prison-camp system.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Soviet history and the former Soviet Union
  • Readers exploring accounts of political imprisonment
  • Readers seeking a volume from Solzhenitsyn’s larger *The Gulag Archipelago*

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Soviet prison campsPolitical imprisonmentHistorical inquiry

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Book overview

"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

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