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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A nonfiction book about the Soviet forced labor camp system, based on a combination of the author's own experiences as a prisoner, reports, interviews, and legal documents. The book is a massive indictment of the entire Soviet system.
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2Ivan Petrov
2024-03-28
Essential reading for understanding the 20th century. Solzhenitsyn's moral courage in writing this under the threat of death is staggering.
Anne Sullivan
2024-01-12
A brutal, necessary book. The line 'the line dividing good and evil cuts through every human heart' should be engraved in stone.