The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with Thomas P. Whitney (Translator), Harry Willetts (Translator)

544 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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A 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. Based on the testimony of some 200 survi...

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Moods

dark 83%
informative 79%
challenging 66%
sad 64%
reflective 58%
emotional 47%
tense 33%
hopeful 12%
inspiring 12%
funny 10%
adventurous 4%

Pace

slow 68%
medium 27%
fast 4%

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