A Dialogue From the Soviet Gulag

What would it be like to talk to a prisoner in the soviet gulag prison system? In this dynamic audio/art dramatization, two Soviet prisoners debate the success and failure of Marxist policies versus life under the Tsar. Alexander observes the consequences of Soviet policies and the challenges it has caused the average person. The professor, who has not been imprisoned as long, does not perceive failure. This becomes a sticking point, and a give-and-take discussion occurs.
Adapted from a true story written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in volume two of the Gulag Archipelago series. The story takes place in the mid to late 1940's Russia known as the ussr or the Soviet Union. Part documentary part movie.
0:00 Intro
The narrator starts the story and sets the basic scene.
0:59 Meet the Prisoners
Alexander and the new prisoner meet and begin the dialog with a brief look at poverty.
2:04 Collective Farms
2:28 Shortages
3:00 Prices and wages
3:48 Equality and Family
4:35 Crime Rate
4:58 Article 58
5:40 Outro
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[@cardinal5000]

Just the reading portion of Vol. 1(no glossary, etc.) is a staggering 615 pages. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is winner of the Nobel Prize and Time called his book the "Best Nonfiction Book of the Twentieth Century." He was no dumb bunny.

[@TheBoringVoice]

It's an amazing literary work in its own right, and this is just one of several works in the topic. The prose even in translation has a pointed but poetic tone. Even when covering such a difficult topic, humer keeps it from bleakness.