Tag: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1
Review: Dark. Holy fuck. And this was only Volume 1. A chilling first-hand account of life in the soviet prison industry system. Man’s inhumanity to man, repeated ad nauseum. Like a very long version of the author’s own One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch. A lucid reminder to keep people like Trump out… Read more
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Review: Read this in one day, just like the book is a journal of one day in the life of a Russian imprisoned under the Soviet regime in 1951. A brilliant, terrifying document, but captivating and gripping. I could relate to so many aspects of the prison experience, conditions for my incarceration were improved by… Read more