why escape from the gulags was virtually impossible. how many years of hard labor you could get for stealing potatoes and. the function of the Organs in Stalin’s regime. In this summary of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,In this book summary you’ll find out This book summary will take you through some of Solzhenitsyn’s thoughts and stories about the gulag system that brought misery to millions. This allows Solzhenitsyn to take an anthropological approach, describing to the reader what life was like on those strange and brutal islands. The central literary device Solzhenitsyn uses is the metaphor of Stalin’s gulag network as a chain of islands – otherwise known as an archipelago – separate and out of view from the rest of Russia. Therefore, Solzhenitsyn’s work is not your average non-fiction account of life in a prison camp – it’s also an attempt to capture the bleak absurdity and desperate humanity of it all. While rightfully regarded as a vitally important document of the horrible acts committed by the government under Stalin’s rule, it’s also a great work of literature, both unflinching and deeply poetic. The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago holds an interesting place in literary history. "The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times." -George F. And Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. "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 Yorkerĭrawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. 
The Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author).
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" - Time The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn
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