title: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
description: &#8220;Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century&#8221; (Time magazine)<br /><br />&#8220;It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.&#8221; (David Remnick, The New Yorker)<br /><br />&#8220;The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.&#8221; (George F. Kennan)
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  First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of
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  Brief quote from page 168 of _Th_ _e Gulag Archipelago_ _1918–1956: Volume 1_
  by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Copyright © 1973 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.
  English-language translation copyright © 1973, 1974 by Harper & Row
  Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
  
  
  The author and publisher are grateful to Coleman Barks for permission to quote
  his translation of “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing” by
  Jelaluddin Rumi. Copyright © Coleman Barks.
  
  
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