“I'm thinking of Solzhenitsyn, who in the Gulag and in the First Circle, which we talked on this program, they're all grim.”
Russ Roberts, Host on EconTalkTranslating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)
The First Circle
The First Circle
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn · 1968
A novel depicting the lives of scientists and intellectuals imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp during the Stalinist era.
Russ Roberts notes the book's grim nature.
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