WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON'Solzhenitsyn?s masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum 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.' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn' personal and collective account of Stalinist Russia is one which will prompt you to fully appreciate the times of peace and prosperity in which most live in. Stories of sadness, treachery, & torture, detailing the neurotic effect one man (Stalin) can have upon a peoples. While this may be the case, Solizhenitsyn reminds us that even in the darkest of times, those pure of heart among us always shine through, as he recounts the acts of survival, fraternity, & the collective struggle of the oppressed, and just how far the human spirit can be stretched. Not just a read for those interested in history, but also those in good and evil, and the human conscious. - Nicholas (QBD)
Guest, 26/11/2020
