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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.

The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.

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January 1, 2003
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LakeFisherman

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023

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Excellent book, packed full of information about the Russian revolution, Stalin,Lenin and the Gulags. Everyone needs to know this number information, yet so few do. I also have the audiobook. The narrator has a very strong British accent. I had a hard time understanding him. But I watched some British TV on Amazon Prime. I went back to listening to the book and was able to understand it with ease.

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r.jericho

haunting given the current circumstances in the usa

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I was brought here by Jordan Peterson and am embarrassed to say I hadn't heard about these volumes of work before. Shockingly (or maybe not so shockingly) the education system failed to mention this, even though I was in private school. That being said, I've felt the need since around March to delve deeper into what we are looking at in the USA - defined by what can only be called a hybrid mix of cultural marxism, communism, post-modernism, and Maoism. It is my belief that we are facing an existential threat to our country.
This book is a horrifying and haunting tale of what could be on deck if Americans don't stand up now. I encourage anyone to read it just to get a small taste of what went on in the Soviet Union, and to understand truly what communism is and what it does/has done to people, but I think it is especially pertinent to the USA as we face down a pseudo maoist cultural revolution that China saw in the 1960s. Between this and the words of the infamous KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, I would say the USA is well into the second 'destabilization' phase and has even entered into the third phase of 'crisis.' I truly would advise people to read these books as a warning, and to take Alexander Solzhenitsyn's words seriously as we face the rest of 2020 and beyond:
"I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust and prevent those wise persons who are attempting to establish even finer degrees of justice and even finer legal shades of equality - some because of their distorted outlook, others because of short-sightedness and still others out of self-interest - from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road. Because they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat - one which has never been seen before in the history of the world."

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J. E. Marlin

Everyone Should Own A Copy

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I bought this after I heard how many people risked their lives to see that it was published. I felt I owed it to the author. Not long after buying it, I found that a relative had a copy in his personal library and I could just have borrowed it. But I'm actually not sorry I bought my own, because the more copies of this book there are in the world, the better.

Though written by a Russian, though sprawling, this book is not dense or hard to read or boring. It's not even depressing in the way that we expect from Russian fiction (this is nonfiction), except of course you have to go into it expecting that you are going to read about the gulags, which include some of the most horrifying conditions, both physical and mental, in modern history. A lot of what is contained in this book are stories of experiences had by people who didn't make it out. There was so much suffering, drama, and heroism that happened in Soviet Russia, which just went down the memory hole forever. Solzhenitsyn records some of these stories, those he personally happened to have access to, for posterity.

Get it, read it slow steps, however much you can stand to read at a time, and meditate on the lessons. Then keep it on your shelf to return to as needed.

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Why the spread of Marxism should be ended once and for all!

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I have just started reading this book and it is one in which I can only read a few pages at at time because of the intensity, depravity and lack of understanding on my part as to how a human being can be so wickedly cruel to other human beings. I guess there is just no value to human life that is believed by some people. Or, perhaps it is fear for oneself to participate in something so incredibly evil hoping that it won't happen to them. The sad part is that millions of people were killed for no reason; denied of what their life could have been. With what we are seeing in the world today it makes you think of the possibility of it happening again if we don't put a stop to the tyranny, division and hostility that is being perpetuated by global elitists of our time. I encourage everyone to read this book so that we are mobilized to stop this demonic spread of communism, socialism and Marxism wherever we see it.

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Joshua L.

but it's a nice idea though" or "Oh yes

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017

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I regard this book as of the most needed reads of the current generation of Western Civilization. As a millennial, throughout my life there are few things that I have heard more than "the power of the collective through community." I have heard this most often in reference to some form of Communism or Socialism. Always accompanying these isms have been general statements of their respective failures as political theories quickly silenced by blanket statements such as, "Yeah, but it's a nice idea though" or "Oh yes. The USSR was an ugly blot on history of Marxism BUT that is not REAL communism. The Russians did it wrong." Those statements, not only logically fallacious but also exceedingly arrogant, comes out of the mouths of almost every young person (14 to 30) that I speak to about Communism. They believe, through the meddling of media and academia, that Communism is a caring ideology that wants what is best for others. They are all about feelings and the supremacy of people's experiences. Well, that is what Solzhenitsyn does: he brings to you the reality of the sinister totalitarianism that is Marxism. Though he is regarded as one of the finest scholars of the 20th century he has done what the millennial generation wants: he has made it personal. This book has opened my eyes to the horrors of Soviet Russia and what is more, throughout his story, he reveals important aspects of our human nature. You Western son or daughter MUST READ THIS BOOK. It will change your life if you do.

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Arthur Guedes de Araujo

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I only wish I’d got the full version!

Reviewed in Japan on June 6, 2021

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I found this book fascinating and terrifying all at the same time. It filled in some of the gaps in my knowledge of how Marxism plays out in societies, and revealed the dangers of its continued popularity amongst some of our contemporaries in the wider culture. Truly, just a bad idea that will not seem to go away.

Haritz

Si se quiere profundizar en la historia de Rusia, un libro que hay que leer.

Reviewed in Spain on February 17, 2015

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Para mi un libro que me ha dejado marca. Impresionante el poso que deja sobre la capacidad del ser humano de hacer daño y destrozar familias y comunidades enteras. Todo por y para nada.

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SHIELDFAN

A 20TH CENTURY LITERARY MASTERPIECE STILL RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY – BUT NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2022

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If you’re prone to retching on hearing stories of gruel being served up in washbasins, human corpses being shoved under beds, prisoners eating the remains of a dead horse and 80 prisoners crammed into a transit train being left to wet themselves because visits to the toilet took too long to supervise, THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO is not for you. But if your stomach can stand such tales, and many far worse, the book is quite simply a masterpiece. Written in the spirit of the Star Trekkers, its Nobel Prize-winning author boldly going, like Captain Kirk and his crew, where no man had gone before, it was the first-ever true exposé of the brutality that occurred in the Stalin-era labour camps, or GULAGs as they were known. Predictably its publication in the West resulted in serious consequences for Solzhenitsyn – he was deported to the USA in 1974 – but thank God it was published.

I first became acquainted with Solzhenitsyn’s writings whilst a pupil at a well-regarded grammar school in the Home Counties in the 1970s. My third-year class studied ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH, which documents a typical day in the life of a prisoner in the “special” camps in which Solzhenitsyn served eight years as an “Article 58er” (basically an anti-Soviet agitator). It interested me sufficiently follow it up with GULAG, to which IVAN DENISOVICH is effectively a prequel. So I purchased a copy in Foyles Bookshop back in late 1976 and read it over the subsequent six months. It really does make IVAN DENISOVICH seem rather tame. Unfortunately, I gave the book away some years after reading it, but the invention of e-books and my recent retirement gave me the money and time to purchase it and re-read it.
What struck me in the ‘70s, and now, were the similarities between the attitudes and mindsets of the GULAGs and those which I encountered daily at my school. Was this surprising? Not really, when you consider that many of the parents and teachers of the time had served in prisoner of war camps, albeit more likely German rather than Russian ones. Let’s look at just two examples. The main weapon of torture against GULAG prisoners was the cold. Prisoners working in mine shafts had to strip naked, have cold water poured over them and run naked to their compound. This evokes memories of the compulsory showers that pupils had to endure after compulsory games three days a week, even in midwinter. Not only was the water freezing, the teachers would walk round the changing rooms, obviously “checking out” the naked teenage bodies of their pupils. In Stalinist Russia, the state was always right and its subjects always wrong. Every complaint ever made to a camp chief was somehow proven wrong. This sounds like a parallel to my school experience, where a succession of complaints about sex abuse by a “Jimmy Saville” teacher were dismissed for alleged “lack of evidence” even though they had been well documented with dates and times. The offender was caught, pleaded guilty and jailed – 20 years later. Sexual abuse of women prisoners was commonplace in GULAGs ; many women got favourable treatment in return for granting sexual favours to male guards.

The GULAG experience stayed in prisoners’ minds for many years afterwards. Solzhenitsyn deserves kudos for recognising that the human defence mechanism does not allow such experiences to be forgotten. In Volume 3, he appeals to fellow writers not to write that people discharged from camps have forgotten it all and are happy. Absolutely true, and a parallel to some of my unfortunate classmates who were on anti-depressants for a long time after leaving the school,

With free speech now under serious threat from moral totalitarianism, GULAG is actually more relevant now than it has ever been. In Volume 1, Solzhenitsyn recalls a case of a university lecturer losing his job for quoting Lenin, but not Stalin, in a lecture. The parallels with what is happening now, with academics losing their jobs and receiving death threats for questioning the wisdom of gender self-identification, and stating the biologically provable fact that only women can get pregnant, are alarming. A central message of GULAG is that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Now, it would seem, is a good time to reiterate that message and read this book, to which I award five well-deserved stars.

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R. M. M.

Horrific but a must-read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2019

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Decades ago I read A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and thought I'd done my duty in terms of reading Solzhenitsyn. However, there's far, far more to this book - it is rather a lot longer - and I am very glad to have read it.

Denisovich is a simple story of the daily misery of life in a Siberian camp. This gives a lot more detail on that, but more importantly it also gives the background. You could be going about your business and policemen would come up and ask for a word. Knowing you had done nothing wrong, you'd go along with them happily - but what you didn't know was they had a quota to fill and you were it. There is a story of a meeting where Stalin's name was mentioned, at which everyone started clapping - and this went on, and on, and on. Eventually one person at the top table felt he had clapped enough. It was noted that he was the first to stop clapping and he was soon in a camp. No-one was safe for a moment.

The evils of the Gulag were known as early as about 1920, thanks to escapees who wrote of their experiences - but that didn't stop the useful idiots of the left praising Soviet Russia to the rooftops. They should rot in hell for such wickedness. There was no significant difference between Russia under Lenin and Stalin, and Germany under Hitler.

It can't be called a fun read but it's engrossing start to finish.

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