The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 27 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 10/13/2020

Synopsis

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

About Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

After serving as a decorated captain in the Red Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was sentenced in 1945 to eight years of hard labor for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. He vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his long short story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1970. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, just weeks after The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet penal system, first appeared in the West. For eighteen years, he and his family lived in Vermont, where he wrote The Red Wheel. In 1994 he returned home to Moscow, where he died in 2008.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Wow. The first volume of Soltzhenitsyn's book was fantastic, this one is so much better. Yes, part 3 (which consists about 597 of the 672 pages) drags after a while. In it he takes the reader through the Gulag, with chapters on the overseers, the children and pretty much every other aspect of the cam......more

Goodreads review by Miltos

Αρκετά πιο κουραστικό από το πρώτο μέρος, σίγουρα όμως το ίδιο συγκλονιστικό.......more

Goodreads review by Elena

"Ceea ce ar trebui cuprins in aceasta parte este de necuprins. Pentru a concepe si a pricepe acest salbatic adevar, trebuie sa-ti fi tarat vieti de-a randul zilele prin lagare, prin aceste locuri unde, fara o inlesnire cat de cat, nu apuci sa supravietuiesti nici macar unei singure condamnari, caci......more

Goodreads review by Stela

Termin cu inima strînsă și volumul al II-lea al Arhipelagului Gulag, în care Alexandr Soljenițîn, enumerînd metodele „exterminării prin muncă” folosite de sistemul comunist sovietic, descrie totodată încă alte metode care fac dovada infinitei inventivități umane în a face rău. Apropo, știați că cele......more

Goodreads review by Cassandra Kay

I started reading this series after a verbal altercation with an individual over my American upbringing and challenged notions about the Soviet Union and its actuality. As someone who does not like being challenged on their assumptions unfairly, I took up the challenge of reading the canon of the Gu......more

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