The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The history of the United Soviet Socialist Republics is a bloody one, especially before and during the time of Stalin. Tens of millions of innocent people were tortured, imprisoned and killed; entire minority populations were targeted. In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn draws a harrowing portrait of four decades of Soviet repression.

Drawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, along with records from Soviet archives and...