Book recommendation. I’d read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago years ago, never realizing how much more he’d written. That one work is an incredible revelation of his personal history with Stalin’s political prison system in the 1940s-50s, but he wrote so much more great stuff. This small book of autobiographically-based fiction stands with Orwell and Huxley, not as another warning of dystopian fiction, but as an exposure of a centralized state, dystopian, genocidal reality that was hidden from the world for decades. (Perhaps democide would be the better word?)
The book came to my attention a few weeks ago as I was listening to a Tom Woods podcast with the president of the local historical society of Cavendish, Vermont – the site to which Solzhenitsyn emigrated after his second Soviet exile. Do yourself a favor.