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“Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century” (Time magazine ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into a work of staggering magnitude. 9 cassettes. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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1.0 out of 5 stars It must be done, Oct 15 2006

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J. Mclarty (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Paperback)

For this book I would give 5 stars, for this version, only 1. Do yourself a favour and save time and money, buy the unabriged editions! (Three volumes, takes abit of work)Reading this amazes you, but leaves you dissatisfied, wanting the whole story, for that is what you need with this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hats off to Solzhenitsyn, May 23 2009

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Pete Kitay - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Paperback)

If Orwellian writers described the dangers of totalitarianism and dehumanization in works of fiction, this is the raw articulation of that brutal reality in hard detail. Every student of History must read this.

Solzhenitsyn's effort is massive, to say the least. Sure, it's a long book. But before long, the reader begins to appreciate George Kennan's celebrated description of the GA as "the greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be leveled in modern times."

On the other hand, GA is also more personal and reflective that you might expect. Solzhenitsyn writes: "let the reader who expects this book to be a political expose slam its covers shut right now."

In the end, I'm not sure that it matters much whether you agree with Solzhenitsyn's conclusions or not - the weight of his testament is value enough.

Suffice it to listen to a story that, until now, we've only heard ABOUT but of which we hardly knew the details.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Question, Dec 19 2011

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Dances with Monsters "DwM" (Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gulag Archipelago: v. 1 (Hardcover)

So is this volume I (as it says above), or is it an abridgement (as another reviewer says)? I have the Fontana edition, and there is NO indication of whether what I am reading is an abridgment or the the first volume, or what, it`s very annoying. It has the same cover as the one above, and is 650 pages long and split into two parts. But I`ve no idea which parts they are. If I knew I was reading an abridgement I could stop reading and buy the entire thing.

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