Wholesale The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

An Experiment in Literary Investigation Paperback History / Russia “Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” -Time magazine Volume 2 of the gripping epic masterpiece, the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. He vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, the year The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet prison system, first appeared in the West. For eighteen years, he and his family lived in Vermont. In 1994 he returned to Russia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died at his home in Moscow in 2008.