Name: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
Rating: 4.285714285714286 (28 reviews)

Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

An Experiment in Literary Investigation, I-VII

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims -- men, women, and children -- we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the "welcome" that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 -- a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle -- has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

João Ferreira

A Soviet "political" prisoner's autobiographical description of the forced labor camps in Communist Russia, and of the millions of people who were victims of the regime, either through said camps, forced starvation, or simply deliberate killings.

A must read, especially at a time when Communism is back in vogue.

"Ideology — that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors."

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

Describes individual escapes and attempted escapes from Stalin's camps, a disciplined, sustained resistance put down with tanks after forty days, and the forced removal and extermination of millions of peasants

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