The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's account of the Soviet camp and prison system. He spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile. The book draws on his own experiences and on the testimony of some 200 survivors.
It covers camps, prisons, transit centres and the secret police, along with informers, spies and interrogators. It also records 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.
This edition is abridged into one volume at the request of the author. It is the officially approved abridgement of The Gulag Archipelago Volumes I, II and III. It includes an afterword by Jordan B.
- Edition
- Officially approved one-volume abridgement of Volumes I, II and III
- Afterword
- Jordan B. Peterson