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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.

©2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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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)

Thought-provoking Content • Historical Significance • Authentic Narration • Profound Insights • Compelling Documentation

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A must read/listen, especially for those who haven’t got to live under communist or other dictatorship rule.

A must read/listen

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No book is as real as this one. This is truth and history, for your sake and every one else's - READ

This should be read by every living person!

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I loved the book it is interesting in lighting, the horrors we humans have put each other in for power, grid and etc.

horrors of the gulag archipelago

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Never thought that a book would take me to such a dark place within myself. Thank you to everyone involved in the production of these pages.

Left me scarred, a necessity in a way

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Loved the narration, the stories and most of all how the author has given the account of human nature. It is not a politick expose’ but an invitation to look within. Anybody who reads this book seriously will become a better person as Jordan Peterson says. Stop reading this review and just read the book!

This book will make you a better person

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