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Volume 2 of Solzhenitsyn's three-part history and memoir of the Soviet forced-labor camp system, published in English as An Experiment in Literary Investigation. This volume covers his own arrest and entry into the camps, where he spent nearly a decade, and builds its account from prisoner testimony, documents and his own memory. It is the middle book of the work, so readers usually start with Volume 1; the Harper Perennial edition runs 752 pages and carries a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. It suits readers of 20th-century history, Soviet studies and witness literature rather than anyone wanting a quick summary.
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Reviewers and historians treat the book as a landmark of witness literature and a central indictment of the Soviet system. They praise its moral force and documentary range while warning that it is grim, long and best read in sequence.
This is Volume 2 of The Gulag Archipelago, subtitled An Experiment in Literary Investigation, by Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. This edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
Solzhenitsyn served as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army in World War II. He was then sentenced to eight years in prison for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. The Gulag Archipelago, his history of the Soviet prison system, first appeared in the West in 1974. Time named it the best nonfiction book of the 20th century.
