The Gulag Archipelago 1 & 2 ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago 1 & 2 ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Medium hard cover with dust jacket
Some shelf-wear evident and gift inscription in ink on first page
Generally, very good condition

A monumental exposé of Soviet repression, The Gulag Archipelago Volumes 1 & 2 blend historical investigation with personal testimony. Drawing from his own imprisonment and hundreds of survivor accounts, Solzhenitsyn documents the machinery of arrest, interrogation, and forced labor from 1918 to 1956. These volumes trace the descent into the gulag systemwhere despair, not hope, was the key to survivaland reveal the ideological scaffolding that justified mass cruelty. A sobering, essential work that reshaped global understanding of totalitarianism.