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expired Posted by powerfuldoppler | Staff • Apr 12, 2025
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement [Kindle Edition] $2 ~ Amazon
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Maybe they're short on time but want to read some of the "real" book and not just a summary. Or maybe they like bridges?
The 3-volume set totals over 2000 pages. This abridged edition is still 675 pages long. Unless you're a historian or have deep interest in the topic, reading 675 pages is likely enough for most people.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, p. 13 and footnote 5.