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emason1121 's review for:
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's not quick or easy reading, but it is urgent and necessary history that shouldn't be allowed to disappear into the forgotten. The research undertaking is massive, and the pace keeps up [save that overly-long extremely dry (humor-wise) middle section about the legal system] because he goes from person to person, experience to experience, within chapters, paragraphs, sentences. The sheer volume of it is astonishing and the delivery of it is so matter-of-fact that the seeming-ordinariness contributes to the horror at both the events and the possibility that it could easily happen again.