Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1], Book 01, (Paperback)

from andrewlovesoldbooks

This book makes me want to never complain about anything ever again. The Gulag Archipelago details the suffering faced by countless millions in the U.S.S.R.'s prison and labor camp system. It is a book beyond review - Solzhenitsyn has profound insight, devastating wit, and a staggering memory. Fr...

from dickcraig

I read this book on a train trip from Vancouver, BC to Montreal shortly after it came out. I will never forget the way the author described the shear hopelessness of the people caught in the system.

from TadAD

Not a memoir, but it sure did feel like one. I tagged it as contemporary fiction because, technically, it is. However, it's really a non-fiction history book. Absolutely mesmerizing.

from vanjr

This is a book everyone should read. Maybe not as an idealistic youth but certainly by age 30. I am almost speechless at its contents.

from charlie68

Very well written book, I am always surprised how well Russian translates into English. A detailed account of life in Communist Soviet Union under Lenin and later Stalin the arrests, purges, railway cars and the camps is an incredible story. It is almost unbelieveable that things were happening l...