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Oct 2020
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141. Foreword to The Gulag Archipelago: ...

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
About this episode

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.

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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/

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