Status Updates From The Gulag Archipelago, 1918...

“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt had been repealed by the proletarian revolution and, at the beginning of the thirties, was defined as rightist opportunism! So we can’t even discuss these out-of-date concepts, guilt and innocence.”

I’m not even sure I can finish this. I’m learning about human cruelty in forms I could never have imagined on my own and it’s not good for my brain. But it is all true history and it’s such an important book for that esp in a field adjacent to government so tbd

It begins.

i have battled the gulag archipelago, but i do not have it in me to finish all 660 pages

great book, very well written, terrible and important history.