renevanbinsbergen

One of the best peices of non-fiction I've ever read. The Gulag is an acronym that refers to a system of Soviet prison camps set up during the Stalinist purges. If you want an idea of how much the Russian people have been through in the 20th century- this book is a must. Tough to get through... long and intense. If you want the jist of it, read "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich". I felt like a Jew reading about the Holocaust- just kind of biased because I could sort of imagine this whole thing going down. Also- my parents were fiercely anti-communist did everything to escape the country because of the legacy that Stalin and the Gulag left.

2022-09-28 12:19