Discussing Volume II Of "The Gulag Archipelago" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
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https://youtu.be/07YFIWL_XSI?t=292
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Capitole
1. Introduction And Why I Wanted To Read "The Gulag Archipelago" (00:00:00)
2. Beginning Of Passages From Vol. II – Origins Of The Archipelago (00:04:08)
3. The Origins Of The Red Terror And Concentration Camps, The Assassination Attempt Against Lenin (00:08:39)
4. Foreigners Writing Favorably About The Soviet Union (00:16:09)
5. "Only The Bold Were Dangerous" (00:18:21)
6. The Creative Output Lost To The Archipelago (00:18:56)
7. Logging And Dostoyevsky's Experience In A Czarist Labor Camp (00:22:51)
8. The Political Force Of Hunger (00:24:54)
9. Women In The Camps (00:27:30)
10. Surviving "At Any Price" (00:30:44)
11. "Like The Moon, Always From One Side" (00:32:44)
12. Truth And Political Power (00:33:53)
13. What Is An Intellectual? (00:36:38)
14. Solzhenitsyn's Ideological Shift (00:42:53)
15. "The Strongest Of These Chains Was the Prisoners' Universal Submission And Total Surrender To Their Situation As Slaves" (00:44:21)
16. The Thieves (00:45:40)
17. Self-Defense Law In The Soviet Union (00:48:36)
18. Kids In The Camps (00:49:30)
19. Cultivating Beauty (00:51:24)
20. A Theory Of Literature – The Upper And Lower Classes In The Archipelago (00:53:25)
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