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We continue our small reading group of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, vol. 1, to help us understand what is happening today. You can read the original post: The Gulag Archipelago, V. 1: Ch. 1&2. For the next two weeks (October 1-15), we continue with Chapter 7, “In the Engine Room,” Chapter 8, “The Law as […]
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Earlier today I finished the final volume of The Gulag Archipelago. Whereas Mark Twain defines a work of great literature as “Something that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read,” I still think I’d like to re-read this one. There’s very little I can do for the multitudes processed through the Soviet prison camps, but I can bear witness. To that and to the camps that are still maintained in North Korea, Cuba, and other dictatorships around the world.