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The Gulag Archipelago

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn
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The audiobook edition of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, read by the author's son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

With a new foreword written and read by Jordan B. Peterson, and an exclusive Q&A between Jordan B. Peterson and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

The officially approved abridgement of The Gulag Archipelago Volumes I, II & III.

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own 11 years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed 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 author's wish and with his full co-operation.

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"Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece.... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today." (Anne Applebaum)

"[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated." (Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph)
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A good opportunity to hear a book very few would read, but should. Read exceedingly well by the writer's son. Finishes with an interesting conversation between Peterson and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

Harrowing but it should be heard.

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The foreword by Dr Peterson prepares you for what you are about to listen to. A reminder that this is real, everything you are about to hear actually happened, “For the good and benefit of socialism and equality”.
The first hand accounts come across as Orwellian-Black Mirror stories of dystopian historical events. Tales of innocent people being arrested, interrogated, made to confess (to anything) and sent to the Camps in bizarre Catch 22 type scenarios.
The narrator (The son of the Author) is easy to listen to and keeps the story interesting and moving along. I highly recommend this book, an insight in to a dark part of history that is overlooked by the West.

Shocking and Funny?

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Still struggling to contemplate the last of what I've just heard. Mesmerising, moving and bewildering.

Horrendous

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A jaw dropping piece of history so many are unaware of brought graphically to life. A life changing book!
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Almost incompréhensible.......almost!

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Needs to be compulsory reading in all schools to understand the horrors of inspid ideologies.

One of the most important books of the all time.

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