Thank you, but four hours is a lot to ask. I am sure it only hits the tips of the iceberg.
MeganC kilt a bar on this tree 1760
I read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago when it came out. I was in university at the time. It was a very tough read but I persevered because I felt it was a must read and important. It was seminal in shaping my political outlook for the rest of my life. Conservative and strongly anti communist/totalitarian.