I want to read this work in its unabridged edition, but I am having a hard time figuring out which publications are not abridged when I look to buy it online. I would prefer an electronic copy for my kindle but I don't mind getting a physical copy either. It looks like each of the three volumes is a few hundred pages long. Archive.org has PDFs but there are letters missing from each page.
Have any of you read this? Any tips on how to obtain the right copy?
I have been, and a lot of sale pages have buyer reviews saying "warning this be abridged" so I've grown unsure of picking a print version.
But you are right in that I could put more effort into finding a good electronic copy. I rescindy original request.
I invite anons to discuss this book if they have read it, instead.
Connor Perez
I recently purchased a copy. I believe it is only the first volume. I couldn't find a complete set and I'm not sure what a complete set would look like. Still, I think the first volume is a good place to start.
Daniel Walker
Counter-revolutionary swill
Adrian Cook
this book triggers the commies a lot for some reason you'd even get fewer analfrustrated replies if you made a thread about ayn rand or milton friedman the gulag archipelago really ruffles their feathers more than anything
Logan Smith
>posted an hour ago >five replies before your post troll king
Alexander Thomas
Jordan Peterson says that the book explains why the gulags were not just a consequence of how Russian communism was practiced, but are in fact integral to the practice of communism.
Amazon has a sort of review amalgamator that mixes reviews from different editions and formats for popular works. That is probably what is happening there. Otherwise it's' just a mistake on the reviewers part. These are the three, unabridged volumes of The Gulag Archipelago.
Owen Allen
He's right. You'll see 100 posts with at least 50 being angry commies meming about CIA and how unhistorical it was. Have you tried Libgen and Bookzz? Also, look for whatever is in 3 volumes, each should be at least 500 pages.
Nathaniel Baker
Yeah I've read the abridged one book megaabridge which is a pretty good start if you just want to try. I then went ahead and bought the unabridged versions and like old mate said they are about 500 pages? I loved the books I didn't know there was so much criticism by the pinkos about it anywhere I can look into that further?
Samuel Jackson
If it's over 2500 pages then it's unabridged.
Logan Price
>longer than the complete writings of Virgil the printing press was a mistake
Luke Howard
It doesn't feel drawn out as it covers numerous topics and those are split into different thematic chapters. So you'll have comical stories about their legal system, existentialism, political commentary, banter, insults to Sartre and Russel etc.
Adam Harris
>I want to read 2k pages of literal propaganda
(you)
Charles Bell
What exactly does it say that is factually wrong?
Samuel Hughes
What exactly does it say that makes it more worthwhile than all the surviving works of Cicero?
Benjamin Morgan
Thanks for the information, that's very helpful.
Proofs?
Jace Perez
The OP and subsequent posts in the thread make very explicit statements of intent regarding this work
Austin Garcia
Depends on who you ask. For example, for someone interested in that period of Russian history it's certainly more relevant than Cicero. For a legal theorists and historian the failings of the Soviet system and the blinding influence of ideology will be very relevant. For a psychologist the effect ideology has on people, to betray his best friend for a bit of fame and food. The collapse of civic virtue. Stories of astonishing escape. Religious existentialism. Like Cicero, it is a statement against moral relativism certainly more relevant to us today than Cicero, by virtue of being closer to our own time. And so on, there are many reasons for which this work is, not necessarily more worthwhile, but certainly valuable. Reading and value isn't a burger eating competition.
Lucas Martin
Please form your own argument.
Luis Gutierrez
I have the first two books in my to read stack. The only other book I've read by him is In the First Circle which is like 1k pages in total. But that was great and very readable so it didn't feel that long. (finished it in like a week)
If it's as readable, the whole of GULAG is actually less effort to read than many MUCH shorter books.
I don't think it has to be. For example the swedish translation for totals around 2000 pages. (7 parts 3 books). And as far as a can tell there's only ever been one edition so I don't think it is abridged. Why would anyone abridge something to be just slightly shorter?
Charles Gray
Wow that's a great point as long as you've read all of Cicero in latin.
Landon Myers
Stop spamming this
Mason Adams
Literally my first post on Veeky Forums. I scanned the whole catalog to make sure there wasn't already a thread I could post in.
Anthony Perry
tryhard
Chase Perez
How is it a case against moral relativism. When's clearly about stories you could never have experienced and that only objectively are right or wrong ideals or acts. Have you ever been starving or watched your kids starve to the brink of death and have a way out by betraying your friend to save your child's life? Deontologically he should not betray his friend but from a relativism point of view saving his child was the right thing to do
Easton Lee
reminder that Marxism is the capitalism of the lower class and is not real socialism
Ignore the "CIA propaganda" socialism shills in the thread. The work is a pretty significant achievement on purely literary grounds even if you don't buy Solzhenitsyn's conclusions that a gulag state is built into the very foundations of socialism (that said, he's also probably right about that).
It's funny that he's denounced as a CIA shill, when he actually later came to the USA and denounced the USA's consumerism and legalism and press. Solzhenitsyn was a literary moralist, not a shill for any particular ideology.