"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 society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. "The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times. " --George F. Kennan"It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century. " --David Remnick, The New Yorker"Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today. " --Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword