Discussing "The Gulag Archipelago Vol. II" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In this episode of Canonball we discuss Volume II of "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which was written between 1958 and 1968 and published in 1973.
Here is a recording of Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde, which I mentioned:
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00:00 Introduction And Why I Wanted To Read "The Gulag Archipelago"
04:08 Beginning Of Passages From Vol. II – Origins Of The Archipelago
08:39 The Origins Of The Red Terror And Concentration Camps, The Assassination Attempt Against Lenin
16:09 Foreigners Writing Favorably About The Soviet Union
18:21 "Only The Bold Were Dangerous"
18:56 The Creative Output Lost To The Archipelago
22:51 Logging And Dostoyevsky's Experience In A Czarist Labor Camp
24:54 The Political Force Of Hunger
27:30 Women In The Camps
30:44 Surviving "At Any Price"
32:44 "Like The Moon, Always From One Side"
33:53 Truth And Political Power
36:38 What Is An Intellectual?
42:53 Solzhenitsyn's Ideological Shift
44:21 "The Strongest Of These Chains Was the Prisoners' Universal Submission And Total Surrender To Their Situation As Slaves"
45:40 The Thieves
48:36 Self-Defense Law In The Soviet Union
49:30 Kids In The Camps
51:24 Cultivating Beauty
53:25 A Theory Of Literature – The Upper And Lower Classes In The Archipelago