![]() ![]() ![]() Applebaum's history is based on newly opened archival information. What other book might you compare Gulag to and why? I will consult a hard copy in order to digest and remember some of the many facts, statistics and quotations cited by the author. Imagine, Stalin with FB, Google, Microsoft, cloud drives and Twitter to hack, and complex algorithms to build cases against all who love freedom. Let's prove her wrong, even if our struggle is vanity and chasing after the sun. Applebaum leaves us with the cold assurance that such totalitarianism will most certainly happen again. I can see why Applebaum won the Pulizter prize.-well deserved. in fact, Solzhenitsyn hoped that someone would do exactly this, and calls for it in his own magnum opus. But Applebaum's account is good history and fills in many details from a variety of sources closed to Solzhenitsyn. ![]() ![]() A master storyteller who can make you cry and cringe and almost relive the whole ghastly tragedy is the sort of history that plants deeply the will that this should never happen again. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archepelago is better because it gives you the soul and first hand account and is written by a great master-an enduring legacy worth even of re-reading. ![]()
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