The Gulag Archipelago

(Abridged edition)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn author Jordan Peterson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Nov '18

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The Gulag Archipelago cover

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

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

To live now and not to know this work is to be a kind of historical fool missing a crucial part of the consciousness of the age * Guardian *
The ferocious testimony of a man of genius * London Magazine *
What gives the book its value is the sound it gives out; the harsh roar give out by a wise and experienced animal as a warning that the herd is in danger * Sunday Telegraph *
He is one of the towering figures of the age as a writer, as moralist, as hero... in The Gulag Archipelago he has acheived the impossible * Observer *
It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century * New Yorker *

ISBN: 9781784871512

Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 36mm

Weight: 396g

576 pages