The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time

Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan

“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker

“Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece. . . . The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, from the foreword

©2007 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

If you can stomach this history,it is worth the time !

A must read, the most profound and moving book I have ever listened to next to the Bible ! I have committed myself to every word and am starting book 3 !

Great Vocalist!!!

This narrator did a fanominal job bringing the true essence of this book to fruition.

A Lesson in Evil, Philosophy and Psychology

Hitler's evil came at the world in a blitzkrieg that the west could not contain, Stalin's evil was a way of life for mostly Eastern Europe alone, and so the west chose to contain it.

Enlightening.

Elegant description of a brutal period in Russia that destroyed and buried centuries of rich Russian culture. This certainly sheds light on current life and politic in modern Russia. It is also a stark warning for those that would bury Western Liberalism in favor of socialism and woke-ism.

Stunning

One of the best books ever. Get the audible with Frederick Davidson as the reader.

There are so many parallels to today!

His writing is on Par with Victor Hugo!

The West is a faciat system..

This book outlines how to do it...and they are doing it. this should be mandatory reading in university.

One of the Most Important of the 20th Century

While Hitler’s horrific genocide of 6 million Jews is generally well know, the Soviet Union’s murder and torture of 20 million often goes unnoticed, and yet is far more important to study, in my opinion. Everyone seems to agree Hitler’s “Arian Supremacy” political views were wicked, yet Socialism has seen an unprecedented and unimaginable comeback in the last 20 years, paraded around like it’s humanity’s salvation. “But it won’t happed here,” new proponents say. “This is America. We’ll do it the RIGHT way.”

An apathetic and uninterested coworker of mine said politics was a waste of time and completely inconsequential to “real life”. This book is compelling evidence that even the most basic political ideology can have dramatic, decade long consequences, including the greatest cover up of mass genocide in history.

Read this book.

Best narrator. feels like Alexander himself

best narration on an audio book. most relevant and important work of the 20th century

absolutely crushing

if only it were required reading for all Americans.. who knows maybe I'll get my own "ten ruble bill" for this comment in the future is things keep going in the same direction 😑

Should be required reading.

The Gulag: most important non-fiction work of the Twentieth Century. Davidson's narration is phenomenal.