The Gulag Archipelago
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Publisher Description
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.
© Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019
Customer Reviews
Great book, narrator needs to be updated
It is remarkable that this book exists at all. It reveals as much about ourselves as it does of the utopian Marxist nightmare that led to this record of history and human nature.
The book itself and the audio narration are great and deserve 5 stars, but I have given 4 to alert the publisher that the narrator should be labelled as Ignat Solzhenitsyn instead of Dr Peterson.
Peterson narrates the foreword and engages in a 1 hour interview with Ignat at the end. Ignat narrates the entirety of the actual book.
Both are great narrators but it is incorrect to label Dr Peterson as the narrator of this book.
Not narrated by JBP
5/5 for the book, 3/5 for the narrator that’s isn’t JBP who reads this to us. Misled and unhappy about it.
The book is great…
But this is not narrated by Jordan. P so I don’t know why he’s even mentioned in this. He does an opening introduction and that is all.