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), H.T. 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 sur...

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Moods

dark 82%
informative 80%
challenging 65%
sad 63%
reflective 59%
emotional 46%
tense 34%
hopeful 12%
inspiring 12%
funny 10%
adventurous 4%

Pace

slow 67%
medium 28%
fast 4%

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