BookAges 16–18
The Gulag Archipelago (abridged)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973
OrthodoxEuropean
The abridged single-volume edition is the way in. The most important book of the twentieth century by some counts.
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“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1973