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The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.
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Check out Meredith‘s book recommendation on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday here: https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-the-gulag-archipelago-191...

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kam01
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A fascinating read.

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Nebklvr
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Vols1-2. L”...if you live in a graveyard, you can‘t weep for everyone.” And yet Solzhenitsyn does his best to honor those lost to the Gulag Archipelago and the political stupidity of a Russia run by a psychopath. Much of this recounting was numbing but some of it was quite touching and flashes of rhetorical brilliance highlighted a great bitterness.

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Nebklvr
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Now how am I supposed to read about Russian gulags when my assistant lays across my book?

rabbitprincess 😻😻😻 4y
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Nikolavidovic
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Eye-opening

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Mishi
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An interesting read, if not a bit slow at times. The story might drag on quite a bit but I believe reading this book is important. Even if you don‘t have a great interest in Russian literature, this autobiography is an important part of history as a whole. The author suffered, and lived through a horrendous situation. He wrote this book to tell the stories of those who never had a chance to tell their own. I would definitely recommend.

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GatheringBooks
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#MarchIntoOz Day 26: These books clearly seem like a #WeveGottaGetOutOfThisPlace moment - at all costs! Part of my book loot from my librarian friend leaving Singapore in a few months.

Cathythoughts Great choice 💫 7y
GatheringBooks @Cathythoughts thank you!! 😘😘😘 7y
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At its height 10 per cent of the population of the Soviet Union were in the forced labour system. Thanks to this Nobel Laureate and the risks he took to collect huge amounts of first hand evidence we learnt the truth.
The gulag system died with the Soviet state. Today about one third of the world's population live in fear of death by their government.
#setonisland (not an actual island) #marchinbooks @maich

TommieMarie74 What‘s even crazier is that this continued well into the 70s and 80s. The US forced the USSR to shut them down so the “did” but the immediately reopened them in secret. I was shocked when I learned that a couple years ago. 7y
MayJasper So sad. Human cruelty, especially that of humans who are mad for power, seems to know no bounds 7y
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DGRachel
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If you're having trouble falling asleep, might I suggest the tagged book? Someday I'll finish it. Maybe.

#insomniacread #autumnreads

Blaire I read this one summer in college, back when I had the time and energy for tomes. 7y
DGRachel @Blaire That is impressive. I've only managed about 120 pages of the first volume. 7y
CareBear @DGRachel that's about what I've managed to get through too. 7y
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DGRachel @CareBear 🙌🏻 7y
Blaire Was on a Russian kick at the time - tackled the that same year 7y
DGRachel @Blaire I think my mom did the same thing - read The Gulag Archipelago and The Cancer Ward the same year. @dsfisher can you confirm? 7y
dsfisher No, I did start the Cancer Ward shortly after finishing the Gulag but needed some lighter stuff in between in fact I would take short breaks in the Gulag if I picked up a Christie just so I could breathe. 7y
DivineDiana My husband loves this book! 7y
Jinjer @dsfisher @DGRachel Have you read the child 44 trilogy (tagged) and if so how would u compare the two? 7y
DGRachel @Jinjer I have not. I didn't even know it was a trilogy. I only own the first book, but I haven't gotten to it, yet. 7y
dsfisher @Jinjer I have not read them. 7y
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DivineDiana
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Asked my husband for a book idea for @Cinfhen 's prompt for #Junetunz , and he came up with this one. Chronicles the terrible plight of the working prisoners in Soviet labor camps from 1918-1956. #mandown

#retrocoverfun #riotgrams

Cinfhen Nice going, hubs 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
DivineDiana @Cinfhen Now, he wants to know if I'm going to read it? And there are 2 volumes! I told him that I would love to if I could live forever! 7y
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DGRachel
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This set was the first thing to pop into my mind when I read #backintheussr. Someday I'll finish all three volumes. #rockinmay

Cinfhen So much pain & horror must be recorded in those chunky books 💔 8y
AlaMich I remember seeing one volume on my dad's shelf as a kid. I don't know if he ever read it. 8y
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AndjoSant
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The horrors of the network of Soviet prison camps, laid bare in the Gulag Archipelago, provide a terrifying insight into the dreadful autocratic communism
during the Soviet era. Solzhenitsyn's masterwork is a must read for all. There were times I had to put down the book after reading some particularly grim scenes. I cannot stress how impactful this work is #russianlit #solzhenitsyn #gulag #booksandsocks

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AndjoSant
The Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm continually having to put the book down and exclaim "this is all so FUCKED UP!!"

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hellomezzie
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"..an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! 9 minutes! 10! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but he dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, (they) were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell.."

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AndjoSant
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On this day in 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was deported from the Soviet Union to West Germany after the release of the Gulag Archipelago. No better time to start reading one of the most impactful books of the 20th Century #russianlit #russianliterature #solzhenitsyn

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Bookish_Predator
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#Shelfie #riotgrams I know this shelf doesn't look too good at the moment but I need to move some stuff around to get them as perfect as I can 😏 and the thing next to the bat on top of my Voldemort pop vinyl is the wand for the Wonderbook PS3 game.

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DGRachel
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This is one of the bookcases in my living room and probably one of the tidiest in my entire house. No photos of the bedroom book cases allowed! 😂😂😂😳😳#FunFridayPhoto

Simona It's beautiful 😍 8y
BekahB I have that same bookcase in black! It's in my living room because it's so pretty. I absolutely love it. 😄 8y
DGRachel @Simona Thanks! @BekahB I have another one on the other side of the TV. Someday, I'd like to do real built-ins on that wall. 🤔 8y
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Hooked_on_books Don't want us to see all your copies of the Kama Sutra, eh? 😉😂 8y
DGRachel @Hooked_on_books ? Now I feel like I need to post pictures of my messy bedroom bookshelves to prove there are no "dirty" books in there. The shelves are just messy. ? 8y
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DGRachel
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I imagine this is pretty dense in Russian. It's definitely a slow, dry read in translation, but still really interesting. #translatedbooks #somethingforsept #septphotochallenge @RealLifeReading