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  • Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
     

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HarperCollins Publishers via Amazon has The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Kindle eBook) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for $1.99.

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  • Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
     

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Bulk_Hoarder
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Shows how little you know about Solzhenitsyn if you think he was a capitalist or pro-West in any fashion. He was a Russian Orthodox mystic, which is about as far from capitalism as one can imagine.

However, he was dead right about the atrocities of the Communist system, which you clearly wish weren't true. The entire civilized world owes him a great debt of gratitude for exposing the evils of the Soviet prison system.
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It was a joke

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Nov 30, 2024 10:42 PM
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BrightMusic959Nov 30, 2024 10:42 PM
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Superb read from what I've heard.
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MMMopeNov 30, 2024 11:01 PM
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I wanted book on tape can kindle ebook read the text?
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Quote from MMMope :
I wanted book on tape can kindle ebook read the text?
Check your model, but I know some (most?) offer text-to-speech.
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lazzlazzNov 30, 2024 11:05 PM
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Available for free through your public library (online, too). Can also find online outside of libraries for free.- internet archive has it among other places.

https://www.rferl.org/a/Solzhenit...88876.html
While the world widely admired his courage in exposing the atrocities of the Soviet prison camps, many, too, frowned on the ardent nationalism he espoused in his later years. His warm ties with former Russian President Putin, a retired KGB officer, drove a wedge with many of his fellow Soviet-era dissidents.
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Just capitalist propaganda, comrade...
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Unforgettable book and a compelling read.
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Just capitalist propaganda, comrade...
"And you are lynching Negroes" responded Vlad
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Just capitalist propaganda, comrade...
Shows how little you know about Solzhenitsyn if you think he was a capitalist or pro-West in any fashion. He was a Russian Orthodox mystic, which is about as far from capitalism as one can imagine.

However, he was dead right about the atrocities of the Communist system, which you clearly wish weren't true. The entire civilized world owes him a great debt of gratitude for exposing the evils of the Soviet prison system.
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Quote from Bulk_Hoarder :
Shows how little you know about Solzhenitsyn if you think he was a capitalist or pro-West in any fashion. He was a Russian Orthodox mystic, which is about as far from capitalism as one can imagine.

However, he was dead right about the atrocities of the Communist system, which you clearly wish weren't true. The entire civilized world owes him a great debt of gratitude for exposing the evils of the Soviet prison system.
It was a joke
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Quote from Bulk_Hoarder :
Shows how little you know about Solzhenitsyn if you think he was a capitalist or pro-West in any fashion. He was a Russian Orthodox mystic, which is about as far from capitalism as one can imagine.

However, he was dead right about the atrocities of the Communist system, which you clearly wish weren't true. The entire civilized world owes him a great debt of gratitude for exposing the evils of the Soviet prison system.
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Quote from lazzlazz :
Available for free through your public library (online, too). Can also find online outside of libraries for free.- internet archive has it among other places.

https://www.rferl.org/a/Solzhenit...88876.html [rferl.org]
While the world widely admired his courage in exposing the atrocities of the Soviet prison camps, many, too, frowned on the ardent nationalism he espoused in his later years. His warm ties with former Russian President Putin, a retired KGB officer, drove a wedge with many of his fellow Soviet-era dissidents.
You posted an opinion piece that is short on facts and heavy on spin. He was always out of favor with the left as he does not ascribe to their beliefs and that was in fact whey he was treated as he was. His first speech at Harvard outraged the left that were ready to gulag him again if they could only get the bureaucratic system built quick enough. If it would have happened during the Cvid and Russian panics of recent time they probably would have got away with gulaging him as an enemy of state and people.

The man believes there is more to the world than a big ball of world government interconnected corporate and bureaucratic led consumerism. He thinks it is grave danger and anti ethical and inimical to the human spirit and soul. He sees danger there like he experienced. He believes the decline of religion, family, community, towns and nations led to what he suffered and has the whole world on a bad path. The left are playing the same game with him that they did with our last election and trying to paint him as some extremist. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a nationalist.

This critique of him is not so much a critique but the left trying to discount his message. It is not new he has been attacked since the book came out. He is not a fan of our or Russia and Europe's current systems and never was as he sees the left leaning policies and philosophies leading to just what he escaped.

You and the article act like this is something new but was known in 1978 and the left did not like it then anymore than they do now. Read the below and you can see why he is hated by the one worlders on the left

https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.or...plit-apart

Please give some context before you l post an article that tries to besmirch such a wonderful thinker, writer and fighter for human rights and freedom.
Last edited by DonV1962 November 30, 2024 at 05:41 PM.
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DelightfulRoute116Dec 01, 2024 01:41 AM
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One of the best reads if you want to understand what Russia is about. Sadistic regime through and through; from Ivan-the-Terrible to Putin-the-Botox-Fuhrer.
Interesting, how the author keeps wailing about the atrocities of Russian soviet regime that... Russians had created.
Not a hint of empathy from Solzhenitsyn towards Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Jews, Chechens or Poles who went through that meat grinder organized by Russians in 1920-30's and later after WW2. Those nations were "loose change" to Russian Bolsheviks.
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xmongerDec 01, 2024 01:44 AM
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This should be mandatory reading in a free society.

The same people that took down Russia in 1917 are still at it.
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Quote from DelightfulRoute116 :
One of the best reads if you want to understand what Russia is about. Sadistic regime through and through; from Ivan-the-Terrible to Putin-the-Botox-Fuhrer.
Interesting, how the author keeps wailing about the atrocities of Russian soviet regime that... Russians had created.
Not a hint of empathy from Solzhenitsyn towards Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Jews, Chechens or Poles who went through that meat grinder organized by Russians in 1920-30's and later after WW2. Those nations were "loose change" to Russian Bolsheviks.
Lenin may have been from Russia but he was a creature of the left in Europe and the universities. Russia did not do the terror, the revolutionaries that overthrew it did. What you do there is like blaming the USA for burning down and taking over and burning cities a few years back.

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