The Gulag Archipelago,  Volume I by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

660 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging reflective slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." --TimeVolume 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 socie...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 401 reviews

Moods

dark 82%
informative 71%
challenging 64%
sad 61%
reflective 53%
emotional 30%
tense 28%
hopeful 5%
inspiring 5%
adventurous 2%
relaxing 2%

Pace

slow 86%
medium 10%
fast 2%

Average rating

4.3

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

Submitted by users as part of their reviews

Expand filter menu View summary

See all...