Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence
from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I.
Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -
the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully.

Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims - men, women,
and children - we encounter secret police operations, 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 the astounding moral courage
of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and
degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - a grisly indictment
of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle - has
now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of
the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.

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