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    <body><![CDATA[This book was an amazing learning adventure through communistic prisons in Russia. Solzhenitsyn is very blunt and clear about what was happening, but that was the best part of the book, you got a great look into the historical meaning of things. The waves of political prisoners, and the tension betw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78748993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an absolute must-read. Part history, part literature, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago catalogues the crushing horror of the Soviet gulag system under Josef Stalin, anecdote by anecdote. It is literally an attempt to record the entirity of the varied gulag experience, from arrest to release ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15318889">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the most significant non-fiction book that has been written in human history. This is the most significant positive book that has been written in human history. A few books are more significant, but they stray toward fiction and negative impacts here and there. This book is highly entertaini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14131258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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