The Gulag Archipelago
An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
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An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1
Ratings3
Average rating4.5
Series
3 primary booksАрхипелаг Гулаг is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1973 with contributions by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney, and Harry Willetts.
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3 primary booksThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 is a 0-book series first released in 1973 with contributions by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney, and Harry Willetts.
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3 primary booksАрхипелаг ГУЛАГ is a 0-book series first released in 1973 with contributions by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Thomas P. Whitney.
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3 primary booksOeuvres complètes (Soljénitsyne) is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1973 with contributions by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Thomas P. Whitney.
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Painful in so many ways. Not entirely comprehensible to a Western reader, but the rest is gut-wrenching and horrifying; possibly even a warning about what may be coming for the U.S. if the republicans have their way. I couldn't stop thinking about the lost humanity of the torturers and guards. How did they get that way? What happens to such monsters? And are we breeding a new set of those in our U.S. southern border?
I don't know if I'll be able to read Volume 2: “And even the last human hope that there is something better ahead, that it will be better in camp, is a false hope. In camp it will be ... worse.” (Spoiler alert: Volume 1—this one—is an unrelenting catalog of atrocities and cruelty; “worse” is hard to imagine.)
