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Tag Archives: prisons
To Build a Castle
To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter © 1978 Vladimir Bukovsky 438 pages When frustrated Soviet officials asked Vlaldimir Bukovsky why he continued to provoke them, he replied that he doubted he could cause them nearly as much … Continue reading
The Gulag Archipelago: Volume III
Archipeleg GULag / The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary InvestigationVolume III (of III)© 1973, 1974 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn576 pages Throughout The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has taken readers on a tour of the Soviet concentration camps, where human … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", Classics Club Challenge, Man vs State, memoir, prisons, Russia
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The Gulag Archipelago: Volume II
Archipeleg GULag / The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Volume II (of III) © 1973, 1974 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 679 pages In the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn used his own experience being arrested, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Classics Club Challenge, memoir, prisons, Russia
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I
Archipeleg GULag / The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary InvestigationVolume I (of III)© 1973, 1974 Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn660 pages Such was my desire to read The Gulag Archipelago that when I found it on the shelf and observed that it … Continue reading
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The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness © 2010 Michelle Alexander 290 pages In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that the United States’ drug laws, coupled with its law … Continue reading
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Tagged America, crime, drug war on America, prisons, race, social criticism, Society and Culture
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This Week at the Library (22 October)
A day or so ago, I finished the second book in Bernard Cornwell’s King Arthur trilogy, Enemy of God, and realized with a sigh that last year, I only purchased the first two books in the series. Why I didn’t … Continue reading
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