With a new foreword by Jordan B. Peterson
'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, The Sunday Telegraph
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 eleven 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.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784871512
Number of pages: 576
Weight: 396 g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 34 mm
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
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