1975 "First Edition" stated on copyright page; "An Experiment in Literary Investigation III-IV"; Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney; thick, 712 pages hardbound; Harper & Row Publishers, New York; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good with minor edge wear.
 
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 Covers life in what is often known as the Gulag, the Soviet forced labour camp system, through a narrative constructed from various sources including reports, interviews, statements, diaries, legal documents, and Solzhenitsyn's own experience as a Gulag prisoner.
 
Following its publication, the book initially circulated in samizdat underground publication in the Soviet Union until its appearance in the literary journal Novy Mir in 1989, in which a third of the work was published in three issues.  Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Gulag Archipelago has been officially published in Russia.