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The most shocking and well-documented testimony of political repression within the Soviet Union.
The Gulag Archipelago was the name of the network of Soviet internment and punishment camps where millions of people were imprisoned during the second half of the 20th century. In this monumental document, Solzhenitsyn, who was confined in one of these camps, meticulously reconstructs life within the penitentiary industry in Soviet times, and his dissection becomes a journey through fear, pain, cold, hunger, and death, with which the totalitarian regime silenced all dissent. This first volume, followed by two more, marks the beginning of the complete translation, for the first time in our language, of this legendary testimony—written between 1958 and 1967—that shook the foundations of communist totalitarianism. The translation has been made from the 1980 edition, revised and expanded by the author, and considered by him to be the definitive one. This first volume includes the first two parts ("The Penitentiary Industry" and "Perpetuum Mobile") of the seven that make up this account of the horror experienced by millions of people.

The most shocking and well-documented testimony of political repression within the Soviet Union.
The Gulag Archipelago was the name of the network of Soviet internment and punishment camps where millions of people were imprisoned during the second half of the 20th century. In this monumental document, Solzhenitsyn, who was confined in one of these camps, meticulously reconstructs life within the penitentiary industry in Soviet times, and his dissection becomes a journey through fear, pain, cold, hunger, and death, with which the totalitarian regime silenced all dissent. This first volume, followed by two more, marks the beginning of the complete translation, for the first time in our language, of this legendary testimony—written between 1958 and 1967—that shook the foundations of communist totalitarianism. The translation has been made from the 1980 edition, revised and expanded by the author, and considered by him to be the definitive one. This first volume includes the first two parts ("The Penitentiary Industry" and "Perpetuum Mobile") of the seven that make up this account of the horror experienced by millions of people.