The Gulag Archipelago : (Abridged edition) (Vintage Classics)

Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile. This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of some 200 survivors. A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, it chronicles the story of those who dared to oppose 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 OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III, with a new foreword by Jordan B. Peterson.

MEDIA REVIEWS

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

'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