Best Nonfiction Book Of The 20TH Century. "" - TimeVolume 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. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. ""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.