Oct 27, 2021
This is part two of a three part series on the book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. If you have not yet listened to part one I would recommend you do as it sets the context for the book and the episodes I am doing on it. In this episode I discuss the parts of the book that have to do with:
- The over capacity of the prison cells as well as the implications that has for basic human functions
- When the concentration camps started in the Soviet Union as well as the estimated amount of lives lost in said Union.
- All of the imaginative ways people could violate Rule 58 (political agitation)
- What it was like for the Communists who got arrested
- Particular forms of Soviet Logic
- The weeding out process of the guards until it was only the cruelest people left
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