introduction in 2007 harper collins reissue all three volumes of the gulag archipelago there and most barnes and noble and abridgment and that abridgment meant has a foreword anneplebaum. it is competent but a little workmanlike. there is 2018 paperback edition from vintage classics in london that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, mainly because it has an introduction. jordan peterson, who was a big fan of solzhenitsyn and most of the people young people i run into today who have read the gulag archipelago have done so because it was recommended by jordan peterson, even though a lot of professional russians who said why he writing this introduction this right wing know troglodyte i know the solzhenitsyn family thinks his introduction captured some know some of the essentials of the book and they were very so it's and then this is the best version of the abridgment of the original english abridgment because it has this splendid and revised introduction by natalia solzhenitsyn. that really gets to the heart of the book and tells the story of its genesis and publication it includes a glossary of names names and places it which of the names were mentioned w