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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
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 The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. Art & Literature Authors Literary History & Criticism Politics & Government Russia Russian & Soviet Social Sciences World Literature Soviet Union War Socialism Imperialism Stalin Military Human Rights
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A raw truth behind the Communist cloud that devoured Asia. many sleepless nights I've had.

grim reality of human capabilities

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The voice actor and the book itself come together to give a powerful portrayal of the prison and camp life of communist Russia. This book from start to finish will take you. It is sad and beautiful. You must listen to this.

Wow… That was powerful

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Never has a book mad me so angr and sad this should be a book every one has to read in school

Terrifying

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knocked this over playing xbox. what can I say? it's the gulag. to give it less than 5 stars is sacrilege.

of course its 5 stars. its gulag.

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“These days, as we observe the Chinese Cultural Revolution at the same stage—in the seventeenth year after its final victory—we can begin to consider it very likely that there exists a fundamental law of historical development. And even Stalin himself begins to seem only a blind and perfunctory executive agent.”

The quoted is a Note from the book for the crushing blow for the upper ranks of the Party, the government, the military, and KNVD itself (Chapter II).

The point is that the same story is happening again today (not so sure if it's the case for Russia now, but quite positive the case for the country that experienced the great proletarian cultural revolution.

Maotalin or XYZdalin himself seemed only a blind and perfunctory executive agent of a determined history, when the conditions were given, especially when this book was not understood, at least by open-minded intellectuals who study history.

That is to say, given the right conditions, Maotalin and XYZtalin are destined to emerge and do something really big. Then, we (the sad experiencer or survivors of the Cultural Revolution) as one of the conditions, allowed this to happen

A Fundamental Law of Historical Development Exits?

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