The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan

“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker

“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

A Lesson in Evil, Philosophy and Psychology

Hitler's evil came at the world in a blitzkrieg that the west could not contain, Stalin's evil was a way of life for mostly Eastern Europe alone, and so the west chose to contain it.

Enlightening.

Elegant description of a brutal period in Russia that destroyed and buried centuries of rich Russian culture. This certainly sheds light on current life and politic in modern Russia. It is also a stark warning for those that would bury Western Liberalism in favor of socialism and woke-ism.

Stunning

One of the best books ever. Get the audible with Frederick Davidson as the reader.

There are so many parallels to today!

His writing is on Par with Victor Hugo!

The West is a faciat system..

This book outlines how to do it...and they are doing it. this should be mandatory reading in university.

absolutely crushing

if only it were required reading for all Americans.. who knows maybe I'll get my own "ten ruble bill" for this comment in the future is things keep going in the same direction 😑