So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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A stunning deeply disturbing 'prequel' to Solzhenitsyn. A strong message about humanity and human spirit, it documents how survival becomes paramount and the skills necessary can be found.
It also documents how the Gulag System was not a peculiarly Soviet invention but an inheritance from older Russian regimen.
A lesson also in current brutality tactics and their futility.
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The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
davescottk14, August 18, 2008
A stunning deeply disturbing 'prequel' to Solzhenitsyn. A strong message about humanity and human spirit, it documents how survival becomes paramount and the skills necessary can be found.It also documents how the Gulag System was not a peculiarly Soviet invention but an inheritance from older Russian regimen.
A lesson also in current brutality tactics and their futility.
(7 of 10 readers found this comment helpful)