The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

"Volume Two is concerned with the daily life and death of the prisoners, among whom Solzhenitsyn spent eight years. ... A powerful chronicle. ... A testament to the tensile strength of the human spirit." – Newsweek, on Volume II

"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