The Gulag Archipelago
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Mar 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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…final book recommendations for listeners on political philosophy and historical understanding
“I think everyone should read The Gulag Archipelago. I think that that is such a wonderful book. I, and this is Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It's a, it's a story of his time in the, you know, a Soviet prison camp, but it's so much more than that. It's three volumes. It's got a history of Russia. It's got a history of the Soviet Union. It's got poetry. It's, it's really a very capacious book in the way that, say, Boswell's life of Johnson is.”
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