The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 #1-7

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with Thomas P. Whitney (Translator), Harry Willets (Translator)

472 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the...

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Moods

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

Pace

slow 67%
medium 28%
fast 4%

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