#1-2 The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics,2002) [Paperback]
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