The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

512 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-po...

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dark 82%
informative 80%
challenging 65%
sad 63%
reflective 59%
emotional 46%
tense 34%
hopeful 12%
inspiring 12%
funny 10%
adventurous 4%

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medium 28%
fast 4%

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