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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn · 1973
A monumental literary investigation of the Soviet labor camp system (Gulag) based on the author's eleven years of imprisonment and testimony from 227 witnesses, documenting the systematic torture, murder, and oppression of millions under Stalin's regime.
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What this book knows
The Soviet state's machinery of mass arrest, torture, and slow death is reconstructed from inside, indicting a civilization's complicity in its own terror.
obedience-and-authority
If many such outcries had been heard all over the city in the course of a day, would not our fellow citizens perhaps have begun to bristle?
GA11-RC-016The majority of the engineers, who had the courage to reject the interrogators' stupidities, were tried out of earshot—but even though they did not confess, they got the same.
GA11-RC-043Someone's far-seeing mind, someone's neat hands, planned it all—patience, overwhelming patience, was the trait of that sovereign force.
GA11-RC-033trauma-and-survival
You ought to come as close as you can to the truth of what was actually said—rounding off the sharp edges and skipping the dangerous parts.
GA11-RC-108Among the POW's of many nationalities only the Soviets lived like this and died like this. None were worse off than the Soviets.
GA11-RC-198mortality
In all our centuries, had there ever been a period of such cruelties and so much killing as during the post-October Civil War?
GA11-RC-3856 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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