by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps; if Solzhenitsyn later became Russia's conscience in exile, this is the book with which he first challenged the brutal might of the Soviet Union....
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Libertarian, Historical Fiction, and Most Recommended Books.
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