The audio is very well done and the russian pronunciation is clear and impeccable.

The audio is very well done and the russian pronunciation is clear and impeccable.  Read Less

A great book, which opened tsunamis of controversy and adulation when it was first published, it was abridged magnificently in ...  Read More

A great book, which opened tsunamis of controversy and adulation when it was first published, it was abridged magnificently in the 1980s, with the author's full endorsement, losing none of its original titanic force.  Read Less

The material shortages, economic failure, attacks on religion, and lack of motivation and incentive for those in the ussr to co...  Read More

The material shortages, economic failure, attacks on religion, and lack of motivation and incentive for those in the ussr to contribute are touched on, but "the gulag archipelago" is of course first and foremost about political oppression.  Read Less

Freedom of speech and the press were crushed, there was no due process and the situation was "guilty until proven innocent and ...  Read More

Freedom of speech and the press were crushed, there was no due process and the situation was "guilty until proven innocent and not even then," and even fairly innocuous statements could be considered "anti-soviet" or "toadying toward the west" and could result in extreme punishment (lenin himself said that a certain amount capital punishment would be necessary to implement communism).  Read Less

It is worth preserving at all cost.

It is worth preserving at all cost.  Read Less

Not a big deal but worth noteing.

Not a big deal but worth noteing.  Read Less

Arrived a lot quicker then expected and with plenty of time to read it through the summer holiday period.

Arrived a lot quicker then expected and with plenty of time to read it through the summer holiday period.  Read Less

The toll it took on prisoners is starkly shown by the 'before' and 'after' pictures taken of solzhenitsyn.

The toll it took on prisoners is starkly shown by the 'before' and 'after' pictures taken of solzhenitsyn.  Read Less

Not just because it was packed with more information, not because it was a good read but because abridging it is a serious insu...  Read More

Not just because it was packed with more information, not because it was a good read but because abridging it is a serious insult on all those millions of people who were exiled, tortured, and killed.  Read Less

This should be mandatory reading to understand how wonderful our government (even as it is) is compared to other countries .

This should be mandatory reading to understand how wonderful our government (even as it is) is compared to other countries .  Read Less

Some "zeks" were reborn as better people because of the sufferings they went through at the labor camps.

Some "zeks" were reborn as better people because of the sufferings they went through at the labor camps.  Read Less