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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 323 EAN: 9780061253713 ISBN: 0061253715 Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 704 Publication Date: August 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Release Date: August 07, 2007 Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - A historical account of total madness and destructionThe Gulag Archipelago is a must read for everyone. It is an amazing and jaw-dropping description of madness and destruction of truly epic proportions. Until one has read such an account, one cannot fully comprehend what Russia's dissidents had to live through - the utter madness of it all, the utter destruction of the State and the utter helplessness of the man or woman caught up in its web ! Rating: - Greatest Book Ever WrittenI have the full three volume set of the Gulag that I read years ago. It is the greatest book ever written. In portraying Communism, as he described as man's inhumanity to man, Solzhenitsyn has an exceptional ability while depicting the excessively cruel treatment of human beings in the Gulag to demonstrate his dignity and the dignity of those who suffered at the hands of their oppressors. The entire book is full of stories of the courage of human beings in the face of such evil. In that way, ... Read More Rating: - The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener.For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a combination memoir and dissertation on the evils of Communism and its inevitable product, the forced labor camp. Some have criticized Solzhenitsyn as an anti-Communist/pro-Western polemicist, but that is not an accurate description. ... Read More Rating: - Aleksandr is The GreatThis is vintage Solzhenitsyn; his brilliant mind shines forth splendidly. A book that is difficult to put down, places one inside his mind to see what he describes, so much from having spent hours memorizing while in the camps so he could later give us a glimpse of the horror that millions upon millions of human beings endured. |
