Harper Perennial The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement

I had to slow myself down on reading and try to absorb as much as I could. I would leave for a day or so and come back to.I almost felt it disrespectful to all those affected not to take my time on reading pause for thought often and try to imagine the enormity of the tragedy.

Apesar de ser uma versão resumida, serve suficientemente bem ao propósito de fazer-nos acordar para promessas de paraíso na terra através de governos. Capítulos de revirar o estômago e fazer com que se perca o sono ao ir dormir; e o pior de tudo é que não estão sendo narrados relatos fantasiosos, mas situações reais de várias pessoas cujo único crime foi se recusar a compactuar com o inaceitável. É um relato que infelizmente não foi realizado um trabalho de tradução aqui para o Brasil, país onde é extremamente útil a reflexão acerca destes relatos em vista de tanta admiração por figuras que tanto sofrimento causaram a pessoas inocentes.

Mandatory reading for understanding the danger of collectivist ideologies. The book is challenging but rewarding.

Wow!! This book is a real eye opener on the communist utopia of the Soviet Union. The author was a prisoner in the Gulags for many years. This should be taught in high school history class. Most all know about the horrors of NAZI Germany. Few know about the horrors of Communist USSR. That is one reason kids are so easily indoctrinated to the wonders of socialism and other Marxist ideologies. The author won a Nobel Peace Prize for the book. It is well worth the read. I don't feel like I missed much by reading the abridged version. The chapters that were left out were done so with consultation with the author and are marked and titled in the book.

Good true life experience of the author and the sufferings he endured under the cruel Marxist Socialist regime

Great book