The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-2

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)

704 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging reflective slow-paced

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Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society

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dark 73%
sad 66%
challenging 60%
informative 60%
reflective 60%
emotional 26%
tense 20%
hopeful 13%
inspiring 6%

Pace

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medium 14%

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