num_pages: 660
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
titlecomplete: The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
characters: Viktor Abakumov, Mikhail Ryumin, Joseph Stalin
genres: Classics, History, Philosophy, Russia, Russian Literature, Biography, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 9805
places: Soviet Union
series: Oeuvres complètes (Soljénitsyne), The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, Архипелаг Гулаг, Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics