141. Foreword to The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary

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🗓️ 18 October 2020

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I had the great privilege of writing the foreword to the 50th-anniversary version of the abridged version of one of the most important books of the 20th century, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a devastating account of the absolute horror wreaked upon the people of the Soviet Empire by the acolytes of the doctrine of Karl Marx. I read the foreword here, in its entirety, and encourage everyone to purchase and study the book. It changed the world. The 50th-anniversary version of The Gulag Archipelago is available at Amazon UK at https://amzn.to/2CQ8O6O or at multiple booksellers on the dedicated Penguin Random House page at https://bit.ly/2Q2CUrb NOTE: The North American license is held by Harper Collins, and the book is not available in its 50th-anniversary form except from the sellers above. -- Additional relevant links re Solzhenitsyn: Main webpage: http://www.solzhenitsyn.ru/main.php Nobel Prize acceptance speech: https://bit.ly/2SvkaSS I have recommended many of Solzhenitsyn's books here: https://jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/ - Thank you to our sponsors: https://allform.com/lp/jordan/podcasts For Advertising Inquiries, visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJordanBPetersonPodcast

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1:13.5	Earlier this year, I was invited by Nick Skidmore, editor of Vintage Classics at Penguin,
1:27.7	to write the forward to the 50th anniversary edition of the single volume-abridged version of
1:34.2	Alexander Solzhenitsons, the Goulike Archipelago. This was perhaps the single greatest honor that
1:41.2	has ever been fallen me, given the historical importance of Solzhenitsons book, as well as its great
1:47.1	personal impact on me. The Goulike Archipelago, in its full form, was a three-volume text,
1:55.7	originally written between 1958 and 1968. It first saw a publication in 1973 and was translated
2:03.8	into English a year later. It describes life in the Soviet forced labor camp system, the Goulike,
2:12.1	through a narrative compiled from interviews, personal statements from inmates, diaries, legal and
2:18.8	historical documents, and the author's own experience as a Goulike prisoner. Following its appearance,
2:26.1	the book circulated underground in the Soviet Union until its formal publication in 1989,
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