To: marshmallow
I read the Gulag Archipelago. It is very compelling, but quite a bit of it is subjective narrative. If you want a real read, try Applebaum’s Gulag. It’s a horrific look at the gulag that not even Ivan Denisovich can approach.
13 posted on
10/08/2017 5:35:51 PM PDT by
struggle
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To: struggle
Applebaum doesn’t hold a candle to one day.
16 posted on
10/08/2017 6:23:56 PM PDT by
DesertRhino
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To: struggle; All
If you want a real read, try Applebaums Gulag. Its a horrific look at the gulag that not even Ivan Denisovich can approach.
I agree! Anne Applebaum's 'Gulag' is definitely the best, most comprehensive (and shocking) of all the 'Soviet prison camp' books I have read. After I read it the first time, I immediately started at the beginning and re-read it, something I have NEVER done with any other book. I recommend it to anyone interested in this subject. Other great ones I have read: 'Seven Thousand Days in Siberia', 'Kolyma Tales', 'White Nights' (Menachem Begin), 'When Tears Turn to Ice' and 'The Long Way Home'...also if you get a chance watch the TV movie 'Coming Out of the Ice' with John Savage...excellent also
26 posted on
10/09/2017 3:10:35 AM PDT by
notdownwidems
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