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| Title | : | The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7) |
| Author | : | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Abridged Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 472 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2002 by HarperCollins (first published 1973) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Politics |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Paperback | Pages: 472 pages Rating: 4.25 | 18239 Users | 1095 Reviews
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Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression—the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims—men, women, and children—we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the welcome that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956—a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle—has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.Itemize Books Toward The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7)
| Original Title: | Архипелаг ГУЛАГ [Arhipelag GULAG], 1918-1956 |
| ISBN: | 0060007761 (ISBN13: 9780060007768) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7 |
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Ratings: 4.25 From 18239 Users | 1095 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7)
I view people that cling to the tenets of communism the same way I view Holocaust deniers. From the Bolsheviks of 1917 to the turmoil in Venezuela of 2017; Communism is as Churchill said; the equal sharing of misery. The pages of Solzhenitsyns Nobel Prize winning masterpiece are full of misery. Solzhenitsyn paints a picture for the naïve westerner of the backbone and main pillar of Soviet Socialism: The gulag. The purpose of the network of gulags in the Soviet Union is to 1. Intimidate theI read this in 1974 in a bad situation in my life. This put "a bad situation" in America in a totally new light. I wish more Americans would listen and have listened to Solzhenitsyn.Update: I don't know how many of you have followed the...discussion that has been going on here but it inspired me to extend this review a little. The above is the original review in which I simply urged people to read the book for themselves as it has much to say and is applicable in many ways to events happening
FIVE EXPANSIVE BOOKS SET IN CLOSE QUARTERS (#3)This summer, the Wall Street Journal asked me to pick five books I admired that were somehow reminiscent of A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW. To that end, I wrote on five works in which the action is confined to a small space, but in which the reader somehow experiences the world. Here is #3:In 1945, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, an officer of the Russian army and recipient of the Order of the Red Star, was arrested for including criticisms of Stalin in his personal
I can not in clear conscience say that I really like a book about Soviet Gulags. To be honest, I repeatedly reached my limit of emotional energy. The story of any one of the 20 million people directly affected would have more impact.Oh, right. He tried that first, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In a lot of ways, this a response to critics and deniers of his earlier book.
Get a vivid picture of the work camp life in Siberia from a great author who was sent there and subjected to horrors most people could not survive. Solzhenitsyn's triumph over his bitter and cruel life circumstance gave him a second lease on life, as he made he way to New England and lived out the remainder of his life in respectable fashion, known the world over and cherished for his spirit and writings. The story and history of Russia and Russian literature cannot be whole without mentioning
An eye-opening book, the first one that showed me what gulags were...
One of the most monumental accounts of one of the cruellest ideologies of history,this book should be read by allLayer by layer Solzhenitsyn exposes the hideous system of imprisonment ,death and torture that he refers to as the 'Gulag Archipelago'He strips away that the misconception of the good Tsar Lenin betrayed by his evil heirs and exposes how it was Lenin and his henchmen who put into place the brutal totalitarianism , which would be inherited and continued by StalinIn fact the only thing
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