A review by gannent
The Gulag Archipelago, Abridged Edition by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

challenging dark tense medium-paced

4.25

The introduction describes this as a literary history, not entirely historical fact as professional historians do historiography. This was a really interesting concept to consider while reading this, because this book is a constant wrestling with and confrontation of very hard ideas about humanity. Add into that - how can you create a history of an institution that purposefully avoids examination through violence and death? How can you verify stories of people whose existence has been wiped out? And how could you let those stories go untold?