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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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What a book! This should be read by everybody. Who knew that these things were happening? Who could understand the fear, pain and despair these people were going through? And who could have survived and moreover, changed the world! At least my world! I literary masterpiece by Solzhenitsyn and excellently narrated by his son.

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don't really know what arguments to use to justify my recommendation. Its not fiction. its real life. I noticed that in recent years socialism/communism is getting more attention as a valid ideology to follow. well here you can find out what unintended consequence it has on a personal level. I recommend it especially to young idealistic people.

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An almost unbelievable journey through some of the worst horrors that mankind has to offer.

Chilling in it's description of the destruction of not just the bodies but also the minds of a people on the altar of an ideology still held up by politicians today as a shining example of what 'could be' in modern times if only we try it.

The true brilliance of this journey lies in the uncompromising way Solzhenitsyn reveals the depths of the evil that lies within all all people man, woman and child if only given a bad idea to believe and writes unflinchingly of how complicit and entire nation was in it's own descent into Hell.

Crushing

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Mandatory book for every politician before taking up the office, especially book for European parliamentarians.

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This book will leave you speechless over the horrors we (humans) are capable of. But it'll also leave you inspired over the strength we're also capable of. This book is more important to understand and consider way more than any religious texts you can think of. It's a must read.

It's your human DUTY to read this book

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