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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (English and Russian Edition) (Russian) Hardcover – June 1, 1974

by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (Author), Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)

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Describes individual escapes and attempted escapes from Stalin's camps, a disciplined, sustained resistance put down with tanks after forty days, and the forced removal and extermination of millions of peasants

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Item Weight : 2.5 pounds
Hardcover : 660 pages
ISBN-10 : 0060139145
ISBN-13 : 978-0060139148
Publisher : Harper & Row; 1st edition (June 1, 1974)
Language: : English, Russian

Best Sellers Rank: #202,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #127 in Non-US Legal Systems (Books)
- #132 in Comparative Politics
- #354 in Human Rights (Books)

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Ang

Who else is here because of Jordan Peterson?

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2017

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Talk about an eye opening experience. How did we not learn any of this in school? Shame. The imagery of the sewer system flushing the perceived worthlessness of life is a heartbreaking one. I'm a third of the way through the book. It's hard to read but entirely necessary.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018

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I have not finished this book but saw a review that said there were no author's notes in this version of The Gulag Archipelago.

This is not true. This version, the red-covered Volume 1 of the Gulag Archipelago DOES have authors notes, and lots of them. However, the abridged version which is by the same publisher and has a similar cover to this book, does not have author's notes obviously. Just clearing up this confusion. This Volume 1 does have the original author's notes.

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PlayingThePonzi

A must-read for students of history, politics and/or psychology

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2017

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A must-read for those of us raised in comfort. A reminder that life needn't be (and through most of human history, wasn't) so comfortable. It is a reminder of the dangers posed by Authoritarianism, and a lesson that "evil" is not "out there" somewhere, lurking in a foreign land, but swirling amidst the "good" in the heart of every man. The vagaries of fate and disposition can leave any man as either executor or executed... or both at different times.

A few quotes:

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil. Socrates taught us: Know thyself! Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm, we halt, stricken dumb: it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren't.”

“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations. Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor passed over, nor suppressed.”

“There is a simple truth which one can learn only through suffering: in war not victories are blessed but defeats. Governments need victories and the people need defeats. Victory gives rise to the desire for more victories. But after a defeat it is freedom that men desire—and usually attain. A people needs defeat just as an individual needs suffering and misfortune: they compel the deepening of the inner life and generate a spiritual upsurge."

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Must Read

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This is a must read and should be required reading at the universities. Young people need to understand that it is important to truly understand the ideologies that you latch on to as they have very real consequences.

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Victor J. Taberski

Crushing history of Soviet Russia and analyssi of human nature

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Read this book. It is one of the most powerful things ever written. It acts as a history of Soviet Russia, and a insightful depiction of Soviet the process of arrest in Soviet Russia. This Volume of The Gulag Archipelago covers the process of Arrest, the Corrupt courts, the various statutes under which people were charged as well as many stories about people within the Soviet system. Their triumphs and their depravities.

Solzhenitsyn calls the book "An Experiment in Literary Investigation", and there really isn't a better way to refer to it. Due to the lack of available documentation Solzhenitsyn was forced to piece all of this information together from official soviet propaganda, books which had been banned that he was able to get his hands on, and the personal account of many, many people.

The second aspect of the book, and perhaps the more powerful one is the Book's analysis of the nature of humanity. IT is difficult to summarize this aspect, but the ideas contained herein deserve consideration.

Please read this book, if you read it seriously it may give you insights into human nature that you need.

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Walrus 305

One of the greatest tragedies in the history of mankind

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016

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One of the greatest tragedies in the history of mankind, period. The Soviets outdid Hitler and imprisoned and killed around 14 million of their own people. It's mind boggling! And it's true. Sadly, it's still happening, on a much smaller scale, but this system is still in use to this day. Solzhenitsyn has done a wonderful job of collecting numerous prisoner accounts and turning them into a very readable series of literature, despite the danger it brought to him and those close to him. He will always be a hero of mankind, in my eyes.

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Charles P. Miller

The line between good and evil runs down every human heart

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2018

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Already knew a lot of this history but Gulag is on Jordan Peterson's reading list so.... Gulag is not the story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsy, nor is it a history book- it is much more than that. The real value, and I think a main reason its on JP's list, is in the underlying message that this is not the story of Russia, or the Russian people, or Stalin- or anyone- but of everyone. Every single one of us, every day, in ways big and small, acts in ways that serve to bring forth either a better world, or the hell of the Gulag Archipelago. Be warned, this is some very unpleasant reading. No one wants to think of being imprisoned indefinitely in a "cell" too small even to sit or lie down in, let alone in one with so many bedbugs they are falling off the ceiling and crawling from everywhere, so many you cannot kill them all even if you could stomach the stench. But it will be worth it to absorb the lesson that this is the cost and end result of lies. Speak the truth. At whatever cost. If you want to know how high the cost of lies can be, read the Gulag Archipelago.

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Ethan

The most important book you will ever read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2019

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Where to start? The expose of the millennium, which lays bare the brutality of the USSR. A window into the human soul - our ability to twist and contort our morality to do the most heinous acts, but how, in rare cases, people do not lose their sense of morality even as the system they live in crushes them.

You will be left in no doubt about the failures of utopian visions, how rhetoric and lofty ideals come to mask what is simply evil, the moral bankruptcy of socialism.

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Heavy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2019

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Tried to read this on the recommendation of Jordan Peterson but it was too heavy a read. Make sure you're definitely interested in this genre of books or era of history before buying.

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Rene Kuhs

Great price for decent quality book work

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Not much to say about the book contents as the book series is obviously a brilliant classic that everyone ought to read, but the print is good, the covers are OK, albeit a little flimsy, but you get what you pay for, so for the price, completely sufficient, in my opinion.

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Biro

A must read!

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This one is going on my list of "books everyone should read". The extent to which Stalin's regime subjugated his people is unbelievable.

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Mr. Aj Mills

an important read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2020

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an important read for everyone to know what happened in soviet russia and a warning of what comes with communi9sm

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