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The one-volume abridgment of Solzhenitsyn's three-part history of the Soviet camp system, authorized by the author and cut down by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. It draws on Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years of imprisonment and exile, testimony from more than 200 fellow prisoners, and Soviet archives to trace the secret police, the labor camps, and the destruction of whole populations from 1918 onward. The abridgment keeps the narrative sweep and the moral argument while dropping much of the documentary bulk of the full set, which makes it the version most readers and courses start with. Readers consistently call it essential and harrowing; the common complaint is that the compression loses some of the original's detail and its digressions.
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Reviewers treat the book as a landmark of witness literature and a central account of Soviet repression. Most praise the moral force and the human portraits; the recurring criticism is that this abridged edition leaves out material readers of the full work value.
The Gulag Archipelago Abridged is the one-volume edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's account of Soviet repression, authorized by the author. Edward E. Ericson, Jr., abridged it and wrote a new introduction.
Solzhenitsyn draws on his own experience before, during and after eleven years of imprisonment and exile. He also draws on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and on Soviet archives. The book describes the system of repression that the Soviet state created in 1918 under Lenin.
Through portraits of individual victims, the book covers secret police operations, labor camps and prisons, and the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. It also covers the reception that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. It records the moral courage of defenseless people who endured brutality and degradation.
