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Loading... The Gulag Archipelago, Volume II, Section I: The Destructive-Labor Camps; The Soul and Barbed Wireby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The first four-fifths of this volume covers what the author calls the destructive-labor camps and the fate of prisoners in them, felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining gold, without equipment or adequate food or clothing, subject to the caprices of the camp guards. Most tragic of all is the life of the women prisoners, and of their children. This chronicle of appalling inhumanity is made endurable by the vitality and emotional range of Solzhenitsyn's narrative. He provides a magnificent coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering. No library descriptions found. |
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