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Original Title:	Архипелаг ГУЛАГ [Arhipelag GULAG], 1918-1956
ISBN:	0060007761 (ISBN13: 9780060007768)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7) Paperback | Pages: 472 pages

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Title	:	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7)
Author	:	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Abridged Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 472 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2002 by HarperCollins (first published 1973)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Politics

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Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression—the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims—men, women, and children—we encounter secret police operations, 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 the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956—a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle—has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.

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Ratings: 4.25 From 18239 Users | 1095 Reviews

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Get a vivid picture of the work camp life in Siberia from a great author who was sent there and subjected to horrors most people could not survive. Solzhenitsyn's triumph over his bitter and cruel life circumstance gave him a second lease on life, as he made he way to New England and lived out the remainder of his life in respectable fashion, known the world over and cherished for his spirit and writings. The story and history of Russia and Russian literature cannot be whole without mentioning

I can't really think of much to say about this book other than to encourage you to read it. It will open your eyes and then blow your mind.

Undeniable as an important historical textnow, do you need to read important historical texts? That depends: what's your PhD on?As long as you know, like, The Soviet Union had a fuckton of labour camps. They treated workers/prisoners very poorly and tortured them in imaginative ways. Nobody even bothered to prosecute the bastards that did it, stating that it would be "digging up history." An incredible, unfathomably disgusting and cruel era in history. How many have to die to prove that

This will be a somewhat complex review because I am going to intertwine comments on Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago with the 20th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago right now and have just returned from a discussion of the dissolution of the Soviet Union conducted by five genuine experts: Former U.S. ambassadors and students of Soviet Affairs Tom Pickering, Mark Palmer and Arthur Hartman and veteran journalists Marvin Kalb and Ted Koppel.Let

I view people that cling to the tenets of communism the same way I view Holocaust deniers. From the Bolsheviks of 1917 to the turmoil in Venezuela of 2017; Communism is as Churchill said; the equal sharing of misery. The pages of Solzhenitsyns Nobel Prize winning masterpiece are full of misery. Solzhenitsyn paints a picture for the naïve westerner of the backbone and main pillar of Soviet Socialism: The gulag. The purpose of the network of gulags in the Soviet Union is to 1. Intimidate the

It's been awhile since I read this one but I don't think I read an abridged version at the time. I just can't remember what version I did read. It had just been published in the US. Solzhenitsyn was a fantastic writer and he went through so much. I highly recommend this book and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

A bleak and unremittingly grim account of the gulags between 1918 and 1956, narrative history rather than Solzhenitsyns usual literary voice. There are occasional flashes of hope and redemption, but these are few. Solzhenitsyn provides a historical account reasoning through the states decision-making process and covering all the process of prison and exile from arrest to release (not so many reached release). There are detailed descriptions of the food, interrogations, torture, sanitary