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kilo
03-29-2010, 03:22 PM
I've been interested in this topic for a while, and I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I'm looking for a more historical view of the topic than a narrative. Thanks in advance.
togre
03-30-2010, 02:26 PM
I'm not entirely sure that this is what your aiming for, but the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn covers the prison camps of the Soviet Union.
bazarov
04-05-2010, 05:22 AM
Also One Day in a Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn.
mal4mac
04-05-2010, 09:36 AM
Also One Day in a Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn.

That's fiction. If you want to include fiction, then almost anything by Solzhenitsyn passes muster ("The First Circle" was also superb!)
Rosie Cotton
04-05-2010, 07:41 PM
While Solzhenitsyn is fiction, considering his background in the area and how travel-log the plots are (I mean, it's called "One Day in the Life"), I think it's a pretty good reference on how it really was.
Gilliatt Gurgle
04-05-2010, 09:32 PM
As suggested, "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn would be an obvious choice.
Be aware that it is a long read.

Another good choice is Victor Herman's "Coming Out of the Ice".

Gilliatt
bazarov
04-06-2010, 02:47 AM
That's fiction. If you want to include fiction, then almost anything by Solzhenitsyn passes muster ("The First Circle" was also superb!)

No, that's not a fiction. If you have just read the book without knowing any historical background then it could be fiction; otherwise it's great historical view on life in Gulag.
mal4mac
04-06-2010, 06:28 AM
No, that's not a fiction. If you have just read the book without knowing any historical background then it could be fiction; otherwise it's great historical view on life in Gulag.

What a wonderful Borgesian conceit. I would like to bring Ivan to life by reading a history of the Russian people...
Rosie Cotton
04-06-2010, 01:54 PM
No, that's not a fiction. If you have just read the book without knowing any historical background then it could be fiction; otherwise it's great historical view on life in Gulag.

Umm, there's a word for that. It's called "historical fiction." Fiction based in a time, about a time, with real events woven in with fictional people.
Eiseabhal
05-05-2015, 07:11 PM
The Notebooks of Sologdin
Pike Bishop
05-05-2015, 07:13 PM
The House of the Dead by Dostoevsky isn't Soviet but it's a fascinating fictionalized account of his time in a Siberian prison.
djoe25
05-06-2015, 12:26 PM
The notebooks if by far the best book.

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