“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” — Time magazine
“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