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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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134
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14
Release Date
October 13, 2020
Duration
21 hours 54 minutes
Summary
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time

“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

The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

Drawing on his own experiences before, during and after his eleven years of incarceration and exile, on evidence provided by more than 200 fellow prisoners, and on Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression, the state within the state that once ruled all-powerfully with its creation by Lenin in 1918. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims-this man, that woman, that child-we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the “welcome” that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. And Solzhenitsyn’s genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.

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

“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
Reviews
Profile Avatar Anonymous May 2024

very compelling read to understand world history.

Profile Avatar Byron G. Aug 2021

A must read for all Americans today in 2021.

Profile Avatar Jabroni711 Apr 2021

Such an important book. I appreciate the narrator.. it takes a certain amount of fortitude to get through this book, I can imagine it would be difficult to read this as well as he does.

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Read by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
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