The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, romanized: Arkhipelag GULAG) is a three-volume nonfiction series
I don’t normally consider people that use anti-communist pejoratives like “tankie” to be genuine in their leftism. Especially those that try to pretend works of fiction are genuine evidence against socialism.
Rather than reading fiction, you could read something like Russian Justice if you wanted to learn how the soviet legal system worked.
See also Carl Madsens visit to a Soviet Prison in 1965 (Excerpts from The Good Doctor, also in there a look at the GDR legal system, which for those that have read Russian Justice will see some similarities.) Potentially Justice in Moscow George Fifer, and for the nerds Soviet Administration of Criminal Law Judah Zelitch.
Great recs, comrade! 🫡
Oh right, also this article Soffiyah Elijah: Lessons from Cuba’s Incarceration Model in which I see similarities to the books/excerpts I recommended.
Oh awesome! Cuba’s an area I need more development on, thanks for the rec!
Even the author’s wife described the book as “folklore” lmao
‘Ex-wife’
Try non-fiction
Nice try
Try harder
Calling it nonfiction don’t make it so. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html
dude this is a tankie instance….
no government that has ever called itself communist has ever done anything wrong
Socialist states do make mistakes, but linking a work of fiction and pretending the “victims of communism were its own people” is just wrong.
The funny part is, I was born and raised in a socialist country and it was shit.
my parents tell me all the time about the slaves we used to have before the reds forced us to leave or be killed
Which one
The other Germany.
Damn, how old are you?
Older than the internet.
Yeah, but you’d have to be at least 55 to have lived in east Germany as an independent adult
Some of us are as well and there are differences of opinion on that matter. 😄
We’re leftists, that’s exactly our thing.
Somehow I doubt that one.
I don’t normally consider people that use anti-communist pejoratives like “tankie” to be genuine in their leftism. Especially those that try to pretend works of fiction are genuine evidence against socialism.
Lol, you’re confirming the meme.