UBC: The Gulag Archipelago

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-II. [Arkhipelag GULag.:] Transl. Thomas P. Whitney. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973.


This is only the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago , meaning of course that vols. 2 & 3 have been added to my infinitely expanding book list. It is, in no particular order: massive, passionate, funny, bitter, astounding, appalling, fascinating, heart-breaking. Periodically, especially in the chapte...