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Best Nonfiction Book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No individual in all of history, completely on his own, using only the power of one, has changed the lives of more people than Soviet dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Lenin set the stage by creating the first totalitarian socialist state system of concentration camps, which exterminated 60 million Soviet citizens in 50 years. Solzhenitsyn survived eight years in prison camps and three years of internal exile and, in secret, wrote The Gulag Archipelago, revealing for the first time the existence of this chain ("archipelago") of death mills. The moment the manuscript of the book's first volume...
...life as his country's leading physicist to risk everything in battle against the two great threats to civilization in the second half of this century: nuclear war and communist dictatorship. In the dark, bitter depths of the cold war, Sakharov's voice rang out. "A miracle occurred," Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "when Andrei Sakharov emerged in the Soviet state, among the swarms of corrupt, venal, unprincipled intelligentsia." By the time of his death in 1989, this humble physicist had influenced the spread of democratic ideals throughout the communist world. His moral challenge to tyranny, his faith in the individual...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses." I submit that our Congress needs to reach higher to have a beneficial influence on our society and that it has so far been paralyzed by ignoble impulses. COREY BRUNISH Lake Oswego...
...GULAG ARCHIPELAGO (1974) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's massive account of Stalinist terrors, some of it written in the first person, made headlines in the West when its existence became known. It was the most authoritative indictment of the Soviet system ever published, and it came from within the U.S.S.R. The author was expelled...