The Gulag Archipelago

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?

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>reading CIA propaganda

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.

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.

Counter-revolutionary swill

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

>posted an hour ago
>five replies before your post
troll king

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.

Vol. 1: amazon.ca/dp/0061253715/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3M3N5MPN6OPZI&coliid=I3NH479WPKAEM9

Vol 2: amazon.ca/dp/0061253723/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3M3N5MPN6OPZI&coliid=I19RD670VZX8BH

Vol 3: amazon.ca/dp/0061253731/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3M3N5MPN6OPZI&coliid=I1ICZF0G43EC5T

one of the reviews says it's abridged

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.

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.

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?

If it's over 2500 pages then it's unabridged.

>longer than the complete writings of Virgil
the printing press was a mistake

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.

>I want to read 2k pages of literal propaganda

(you)

What exactly does it say that is factually wrong?

What exactly does it say that makes it more worthwhile than all the surviving works of Cicero?

Thanks for the information, that's very helpful.

Proofs?

The OP and subsequent posts in the thread make very explicit statements of intent regarding this work

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.

Please form your own argument.

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?

Wow that's a great point as long as you've read all of Cicero in latin.

Stop spamming this

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.

tryhard

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

reminder that Marxism is the capitalism of the lower class and is not real socialism

What is real socialism then?

Ebay is probably your best bet (there is an auction here ebay.com/itm/The-Gulag-Archipelago-/152351537708 for a paperback version).

That or keep your eyes open at used bookstores.

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.

(Also, a hardcover auction here ebay.com/itm/the-gulag-archipelago/152347697623 for the same price)