[Category:Books]
Topics covered
- escape attempts
- prisoner revolts, strikes, hunger strikes, and change in culture and relations between prisoners, stool-pigeons, guards, and thieves
- death of Stalin & Beria; limited amnesty
- life in exile
- the continuation through and beyond the day the book was finished of the system that created and maintains Gulag
Quotes
“…envious drones in the village incapable of making anything of themselves besides activists…”