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The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago 1

(Abridged Edition)

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Paperback
Publication Date: 19/11/2018
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Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile.

This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of some 200 survivors. A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, it chronicles the story of those who dared to oppose Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the request of the author.

'Helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph

'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON

THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III

ISBN:
9781784871512
9781784871512
Category:
Autobiography: historical
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19-11-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
197x130x36mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918. He was brought up in Rostov, where he graduated in mathematics and physics in 1941. After distinguished service with the Red Army in the Second World War, he was imprisoned from 1945 to 1953 for making unfavourable remarks about Josef Stalin.

He was rehabilitated in 1956, but in 1969 he was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union for denouncing official censorship of his work. He was forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and deported to West Germany.

Later he settled in America, but after Soviet officials finally dropped charges against him in 1991, he returned to his homeland in 1994. He has written many books, of which One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archipelago are his best known.

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If the abridged version is a heartbreaking, tragic read, I can't imagine what the full 1800 page version encompasses. It's no wonder that The Gulag Archipelago is requisite reading in Russian schools to EDUCATE future generations of the horrors of Marxist/radical left thought. If you sympathise with leftist ideology, you MUST read this. It's beyond horrific the senseless torture civilians were put through. It's beyond horrific the dangers of group identity and anti-capitalist/Western propaganda. We all could learn a thing or two from history and this book - even the abridged version - perfectly encapsulates why we need to ensure it doesn't happen again, especially in a world on the brink of such politics. You thought the Nazis were bad? Of course they were. But wait till you read about the Soviets. The former killed 6 million. The latter killed 65 MILLION.

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