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30 Jun 2012, 9:39 am
Here is the abstract.This essay discusses Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago from the aspect of “law and literature. [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 2:14 pm
  Well, the probate lawyers for Britney Spears are set to appear before a probate Judge this Friday to respond by court papers by Spears' lawyers, get this, comparing the conservatorship overseeing her affairs to the forced labor camps portrayed in the Russian novel "The Gulag Archipelago. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 4:22 pm by Tom Smith
Its impact would not be matched until the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” in 1973.The scope of Stalin’s purges was laid out: seven million people arrested in the peak years, 1937 and 1938; one million executed; two million dead in the concentration camps. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 10:12 am
Russian novelist Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was perhaps best known for his literally and literarily awesome nonfiction tome, "The Gulag Archipelago," described in an early obituary as: a monumental account of the Soviet labor camp system, a chain of prisons that by Solzhenitsyn's calculation some 60 million people had entered during the 20th century. [read post]
In Volume I of The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn observes that those who do great evil don’t think of themselves as doing evil. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 7:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
When I was growing up, conservatives complained of Soviet gulags and Communism's higher incarceration rates were widely touted as evidence of totalitarianism. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:28 am by Antti Ruokonen
Finland had to bend further each time the Soviet Union wanted more. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 5:12 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Maybe they'd have time for a quick visit to the Gulag Archipelago. [read post]
For a glimpse into the mindset of Soviet officialdom, I love the bit Solzhenitsyn relates, in Volume 1 of The Gulag Archipelago, about the 1942 trial of one Strakhovitch in the military tribunal of the Leningrad Military District. [read post]
23 May 2022, 6:11 am by Gabriel Schoenfeld
Stalin’s Soviet Union was the premier case. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 8:37 pm
  He appeared before the California judge claiming that Britney was being treated like  Soviet dissidents subject to forced labor, as described in the Nobel Prize winning novel "The Gulag Archipelago". [read post]
15 May 2008, 5:22 am
Another Mormon blogger quotes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from Gulag Archipelago, comparing the Soviet writer's predicament fighting public opinion and the state behemoth to that faced by fundamentalist Mormons in Texas. [read post]
30 May 2023, 2:30 am by Jack Sharman
Take a break from whatever you are reading — presidential indictment, sports tweet, or adversary’s brief. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 11:00 am by Jack Sharman
Of the making of lists of books, there shall be no end. [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 9:05 am by Jack Sharman
Of the making of lists of books, there shall be no end. [read post]
13 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jack Sharman
Of the making of lists of books, there shall be no end. [read post]
Quoting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: “Ideology – that is what gives evil doing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. [read post]