The Gulag Archipelago

[turinturambar]

Has anyone read The Gulag Archipelago? Didn’t Solzhenitsyn write it as an indictment of forced labor? Wasn’t his life’s work about the importance of rights? Am I missing something? I thought E Oaks’ use of Solzhenitsyn…odd…

[mackay11]

Yes, I read about that too.

I don’t know enough about the writer or the book to comment but find the whole idea of “responsibilities not rights” pretty frustrating. He’s part of the group who sets both the rights AND responsibilities within Mormonism. It sounds too much like: “put up or shut up!”

Shutting up usually means going away. Seems a harsh dichotomy.

[SamBee]

Only read extracts – bit of a doorstopper, own a copy.

Better to read Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch. Much shorter, and by the same author.

Of course no one mentions Solzhenitsyn is a heavy critic of the USA and contemporary Russia too.

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