It’s nearly impossible to read this entire book without becoming overwhelmed at the level of absurdly evil policies threatening the entire population. It validates Dr. Mattias Desmit’s theory of mass formation.
I read both both books as a young teenager. Both influenced my recognition of a broader world, and the potential over reach of government. There were also a few novels about the Holocaust in Germany that shaped my world concept that I continue to question today
I had to put the book down for a day before I found the courage to read the rest of Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archepelago”. After I picked it up again, I couldn’t put it down. It’s incredible to me that someone could live to tell that tale.
Haven't thought of it in years but I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1969 and it haunted me for a decade but luckily old age only has memory space for things important to me. Favorites are important and today is Julian's birthday so this is my gift wish nomination 2014 When Google Met WikiLeaks.. if that doesn't move you to distributed search network & avoid Google like an STD nothing will and this was then!
Another book I consider great is "Special Tasks" by Pavel Sudoplatov. While not 100% accurate (he covered for some people, professional courtesy between spies) it gives a great look at the entire 1925-55 Stalin era from the inside.
I bought a copy of the book ("The Gulag Archipelago") last year, and read it. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the version with the foreword by Jordan Peterson. I'd have to check my records, but I think I bought it from Abebooks (here in the UK).
I think that Abebooks (worldwide) was bought up by Amazon some years ago...
the latter (at least, its owner, Bezos) being part of the evil Globalists who run/control this world, many people boycott (or at least try to!) Amazon... I know I did, some years ago... for merely a few months...!
ALEXANDRE SOLZENICINS LAST BOOK FINALLY IN ENGLISH 24 YEARS AFTER HIS [ASSING IN RUSSIA, BOOK NAME '''200 YEARS TOGETHER , A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIANS AND JEWS ''. 2 VOLUMES, PUBLISHED BY SAMIZSAT EDITION 3.0,2019 I WAS LOOKING FOR 16 YEARS EVEN CHECKED W/ SOLZENICIN MUSEUM IN VERMONT. ANSWER PEOPLE NOT INTERESTED WRITTEN IN LAST BOOK I BOUGHT THERE / BIG BLUE/ I BOUGHT IT ON E -BEY 2 VOLUMES 200 $ pl 35 shipping. absence of foot notes shame that this book is FORBIDEN IN WEST DIVE IT PROPER PUBILCATION WHAT ARE THE JEWS SCARED OF. THE EVIL THEY DID AND LOOKS LIJE NEVER STOPED NOW WILL BE LITTLE CHEEPER PLEASE BUY SHARE INCREDIBLE, I AM 80 BORB IB CZ AMERICA WEST LOST WAR THE MARXIST COMMUNISTS OCCUPIE WEST. RUSSIA WANTS PEACE AND LIVE IMAGINE 90 YEARS UNDER BOLSHEVISM.. HE WAR AMERICA ON LITTLE BOOKLET HE KNEW THE DESTRUCTIVE FORSES UNLEASHED IN RUSSUA ARE RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA
I read his books starting in my senior year in high school - 1972. He has been a hero to me my whole life. I think he would be appalled at what the USA has become.
A side note: my father was a well published and very traveled professor (lectured and was keynote speaker at many international symposiums in many foreign countries, including Stalingrad and China after Tienemin Square). In August 1971, between my junior and senior years of high school, he was chair of the International Grasslands Symposium in our little town in northern Utah, where he was the Chairman of the Range Science Department at Utah State University. He invited a Russian professor from Stalingrad, whom he had met at a previous conference to come to Utah to be keynote speaker. The night before the conference, my dad took the professor and our family (my mother and two younger brothers - ages 14 and 11) up Logan Canyon for a family cookout. He put his Weber grill in the back of his International Scout, along with two cooler, one with food my mother had prepared (hamburger patties, potato salad, raw veggies, homemade pickles and pitted olives, homemade baked beans, homemade chocolate cake, hamburger buns, and condiments) and the other with ice and cans of soda pop. We found a picnic spot by a creek that runs into the Logan River and set up the picnic with a checkered tablecloth, my dad’s homemade “camp kitchen” )that held plates, utensils, pots and pans, dish soap, and dish towels), and we made dinner. After dinner, I had a chance to talk with the Russian professor, who was very interested in my education, I told him I was going to be in two Advanced Placement classes my senior year, one being English, the other American History. I told him we would be reading Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch and Dr. Zhivago. He said quietly that this was wonderful, that these books could not be read openly in his country. He was very excited for me to read more Solzhenitsyn, which I since have. I have wondered about him over the years and hope he survived to the breaking up of the Soviet Union and Glastnos.
My father also sponsored a Chinese professor to visit and teach for a year much later in his career, in the 1990’s, after my father was Dean of Science at Weber State University. This professor, who survived the Mao regime by hiding his education, told my dad his survival was due to ‘the freedom of silence.” In some states, here in the US today, like the one from which I recently moved away (located on the “Left Coast”) one is only able to survive professionally through Dr. Zhou’s “freedom of silence.” My husband was attacked two years ago as a panelist in a Zoom webinar (being told he brought nothing to the panel and knew nothing of the issues) by a young Marxist POC attorney because of his appearance, a white male, despite 25 years in the profession and state Supreme Court opinions in his favor that he argued. He pushed back and later the webinar organizers apologized to him for the attack. He still retells the experience in a way that tells me he has PTSD.
Everyone should read Solzhenitsyn in this country today before it is too late to save our Republic.
It’s nearly impossible to read this entire book without becoming overwhelmed at the level of absurdly evil policies threatening the entire population. It validates Dr. Mattias Desmit’s theory of mass formation.
It was the second book I read in English. It was hard work....
I’m reading this right now, uncanny relationship between then and now.
I read both both books as a young teenager. Both influenced my recognition of a broader world, and the potential over reach of government. There were also a few novels about the Holocaust in Germany that shaped my world concept that I continue to question today
Which novels?
I had to put the book down for a day before I found the courage to read the rest of Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archepelago”. After I picked it up again, I couldn’t put it down. It’s incredible to me that someone could live to tell that tale.
Mandatory reading for every human being....
Haven't thought of it in years but I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1969 and it haunted me for a decade but luckily old age only has memory space for things important to me. Favorites are important and today is Julian's birthday so this is my gift wish nomination 2014 When Google Met WikiLeaks.. if that doesn't move you to distributed search network & avoid Google like an STD nothing will and this was then!
https://orbooks.com/catalog/when-google-met-wikileaks/
Another book I consider great is "Special Tasks" by Pavel Sudoplatov. While not 100% accurate (he covered for some people, professional courtesy between spies) it gives a great look at the entire 1925-55 Stalin era from the inside.
"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov. Unscrews your mind so you are ready for resurrection, the unity of consciousness and existence.
What if I want the version where Jordan Peterson wrote the forward? Why is Amazon suppressing that? -sigh-
* foreword
I bought a copy of the book ("The Gulag Archipelago") last year, and read it. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the version with the foreword by Jordan Peterson. I'd have to check my records, but I think I bought it from Abebooks (here in the UK).
Found a copy here: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30926557134&searchurl=ds%3D30%26kn%3DThe%2BGulag%2BArchipelago%2Bpeterson%26rollup%3Don%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp0-_-title1
Sad that I couldn't find it on Amazon or B&N. Ahh well.
So you were able to access a copy, that's good!
I think that Abebooks (worldwide) was bought up by Amazon some years ago...
the latter (at least, its owner, Bezos) being part of the evil Globalists who run/control this world, many people boycott (or at least try to!) Amazon... I know I did, some years ago... for merely a few months...!
ALEXANDRE SOLZENICINS LAST BOOK FINALLY IN ENGLISH 24 YEARS AFTER HIS [ASSING IN RUSSIA, BOOK NAME '''200 YEARS TOGETHER , A HISTORY OF THE RUSSIANS AND JEWS ''. 2 VOLUMES, PUBLISHED BY SAMIZSAT EDITION 3.0,2019 I WAS LOOKING FOR 16 YEARS EVEN CHECKED W/ SOLZENICIN MUSEUM IN VERMONT. ANSWER PEOPLE NOT INTERESTED WRITTEN IN LAST BOOK I BOUGHT THERE / BIG BLUE/ I BOUGHT IT ON E -BEY 2 VOLUMES 200 $ pl 35 shipping. absence of foot notes shame that this book is FORBIDEN IN WEST DIVE IT PROPER PUBILCATION WHAT ARE THE JEWS SCARED OF. THE EVIL THEY DID AND LOOKS LIJE NEVER STOPED NOW WILL BE LITTLE CHEEPER PLEASE BUY SHARE INCREDIBLE, I AM 80 BORB IB CZ AMERICA WEST LOST WAR THE MARXIST COMMUNISTS OCCUPIE WEST. RUSSIA WANTS PEACE AND LIVE IMAGINE 90 YEARS UNDER BOLSHEVISM.. HE WAR AMERICA ON LITTLE BOOKLET HE KNEW THE DESTRUCTIVE FORSES UNLEASHED IN RUSSUA ARE RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA
I read his books starting in my senior year in high school - 1972. He has been a hero to me my whole life. I think he would be appalled at what the USA has become.
A side note: my father was a well published and very traveled professor (lectured and was keynote speaker at many international symposiums in many foreign countries, including Stalingrad and China after Tienemin Square). In August 1971, between my junior and senior years of high school, he was chair of the International Grasslands Symposium in our little town in northern Utah, where he was the Chairman of the Range Science Department at Utah State University. He invited a Russian professor from Stalingrad, whom he had met at a previous conference to come to Utah to be keynote speaker. The night before the conference, my dad took the professor and our family (my mother and two younger brothers - ages 14 and 11) up Logan Canyon for a family cookout. He put his Weber grill in the back of his International Scout, along with two cooler, one with food my mother had prepared (hamburger patties, potato salad, raw veggies, homemade pickles and pitted olives, homemade baked beans, homemade chocolate cake, hamburger buns, and condiments) and the other with ice and cans of soda pop. We found a picnic spot by a creek that runs into the Logan River and set up the picnic with a checkered tablecloth, my dad’s homemade “camp kitchen” )that held plates, utensils, pots and pans, dish soap, and dish towels), and we made dinner. After dinner, I had a chance to talk with the Russian professor, who was very interested in my education, I told him I was going to be in two Advanced Placement classes my senior year, one being English, the other American History. I told him we would be reading Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch and Dr. Zhivago. He said quietly that this was wonderful, that these books could not be read openly in his country. He was very excited for me to read more Solzhenitsyn, which I since have. I have wondered about him over the years and hope he survived to the breaking up of the Soviet Union and Glastnos.
My father also sponsored a Chinese professor to visit and teach for a year much later in his career, in the 1990’s, after my father was Dean of Science at Weber State University. This professor, who survived the Mao regime by hiding his education, told my dad his survival was due to ‘the freedom of silence.” In some states, here in the US today, like the one from which I recently moved away (located on the “Left Coast”) one is only able to survive professionally through Dr. Zhou’s “freedom of silence.” My husband was attacked two years ago as a panelist in a Zoom webinar (being told he brought nothing to the panel and knew nothing of the issues) by a young Marxist POC attorney because of his appearance, a white male, despite 25 years in the profession and state Supreme Court opinions in his favor that he argued. He pushed back and later the webinar organizers apologized to him for the attack. He still retells the experience in a way that tells me he has PTSD.
Everyone should read Solzhenitsyn in this country today before it is too late to save our Republic.
Anti Vaxxers will be sobered by this .... https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/there-is-no-cure-for-stupidity
That awful man.
There are others far more worthy to have their names said.
https://redfoliot.substack.com/p/guess-ill-keep-this-a-few-decades?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=814700&post_id=120598140&isFreemail=false&triedRedirect=true