The Gulag Archipelago

By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

The audiobook edition of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, read by the author's son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

With a new foreword written and read by Jordan B. Peterson, and an exclusive Q&A between Jordan B. Peterson and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

The officially approved abridgement of The Gulag Archipelago Volumes I, II & III.

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own 11 years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed 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.

©2019 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (P)2019 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"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, Sunday Telegraph)

A must read/listen

A must read/listen, especially for those who haven’t got to live under communist or other dictatorship rule.

This should be read by every living person!

No book is as real as this one. This is truth and history, for your sake and every one else's - READ

horrors of the gulag archipelago

I loved the book it is interesting in lighting, the horrors we humans have put each other in for power, grid and etc.

The true face of the other genocidal ideology.

Jordan Peterson was right in saying that "after the publication of The Gulag Archipelago it was not moral for anyone to still call himself a communist". Hard to believe you needed a book for that, but it did show the West what this ideology is truly capable of. "Intelectuals" in democratic, capitalist nations, like France and the US, wers discussing the superiority of socialism and communism, while benefitting from everything capitalism had to offer. Meanwhile, Eastern Europeans were rotting in political prisons, queueing for days to get food and trembling at every word they said, in fear of being arrested. This book is direct, vast and does not spare details. Yes, this really happened, as horrible as it was. Our civilization cannot take the next moral step, in the absence of a Nüremberg trial for communism.

The best book for 2020

After all what we have been through in 2020 it's extremely important to gather perspective into the consequences of utopian thinking and also to gather perspective on the hardships endures by our forefathers.

A must read for every member of the human family.

Te book is read by the author's son who makes a fantastic job!

Perfect in all senses. Highly reccomended

Highly Recommended

A tough, though essential, read of a first hand experience from one of the most depraved periods of human history. The narrator is the author's son, who brings to the entire project a sense of authenticity and incredible respect for the subject, and for the people of Russia.

A must read

Just read it, no matter who You are. Everyone should know the true past. No one should live a lie.

A must have

This book moves you to the core. Ignat’s voice is smooth and goes great with any other activity you do while listening. It’s also great to hear Jordan Peterson give his input on this book.

Left me scarred, a necessity in a way

Never thought that a book would take me to such a dark place within myself. Thank you to everyone involved in the production of these pages.

This book will make you a better person

Loved the narration, the stories and most of all how the author has given the account of human nature. It is not a politick expose’ but an invitation to look within. Anybody who reads this book seriously will become a better person as Jordan Peterson says. Stop reading this review and just read the book!