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The Gulag Archipelago
- Author
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 27 June 2019
- Run Time
- 23 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.
© Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
Critics Review
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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
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The ferocious testimony of a man of genius
London Magazine
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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
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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
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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
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Details
- Author
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Narrator
- Jordan B Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Duration
- 23 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473570344
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Political oppression and persecution, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Slavery and abolition of slavery
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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.© Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
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