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"""BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY"" --Time ""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 The Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. Drawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the ""welcome"" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle. ""The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times."" --George F. Kennan ""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"

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In terms of the effect he has had on history, Solzhenitsyn is the dominant writer of this century. Who else compares? -- David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, praise for the author It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century. -- New Yorker Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today. -- Anne Applebaum, Pulitizer Prize-winning author

Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today. -- Anne Applebaum, Pulitizer Prize-winning author It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century. -- New Yorker In terms of the effect he has had on history, Solzhenitsyn is the dominant writer of this century. Who else compares? -- David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, praise for the author

In terms of the effect he has had on history, Solzhenitsyn is the dominant writer of this century. Who else compares? -- David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, praise for the series

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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. Solzhenitsyn vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. 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. Solzhenitsyn died at his home in Moscow in 2008. Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He earned a BA degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in clinical psychology from McGill University. He has taught mythology to lawyers, doctors, and business people, consulted for the UN Secretary General, helped his clinical clients manage depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety, and lectured extensively in North America and Europe. With his students and colleagues, he has published over a hundred scientific papers, and his book Maps of Meaning revolutionized the psychology of religion. Formerly a professor at Harvard University, he was nominated for its prestigious Levenson Teaching Prize.

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