{"product_id":"the-gulag-archipelago-9781784871512","title":"The Gulag Archipelago : (Abridged edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a new foreword by Jordan B. Peterson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece... The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today.' - Anne Applebaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[ The Gulag Archipelago ] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated.' - Doris Lessing , The Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFormer Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), Russia, Autobiography: historical, political \u0026amp; military, True stories of heroism, endurance \u0026amp; survival, 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000, Political structures: totalitarianism \u0026amp; dictatorship, Political oppression \u0026amp; persecution\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 Nov 2018 by Vintage Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319684178298,"sku":"9781784871512","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781784871512.jpg?v=1790633063","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/nl\/products\/the-gulag-archipelago-9781784871512","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}