[Capitalism2003]

An indispensable volume, right up there with Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago"

Ditto on that.
I recommend everyone pick up the abridged version on Amazon.
It is a must read for every American. Once you see what the communists did to people, the nazis will seem like misguided boyscouts.

[Yardstick]

I read Gulag Archipelago a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised at how well written it was. Solzhenitsyn has an excellent dry wit. He's as Russian as Russian can be, finding humor in the darkest of situations. You can really see how a film like Brazil owes a tip of the hat to him.