The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED
Chapter 09 - The Law Becomes a Man: https://files.catbox.moe/cw5kat.mp3
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
This Chapter:
It's five sentences long (got the knife for abridgment). Listen to the 37 seconds of it, or read it here:
>This chapter describes the law “while it is still in its Boy Scout stage,” in the early 1920s. Five trials are traced in detail, among them the 1922 Moscow and Leningrad trials against prominent Church leaders, leading to the execution of the defendants. The objective of these trials is to speed up the repression and the looting of the Church. Lenin draws up the political section of the Criminal Code. Its scope is unlimited.
Why you should know this book:
You probably went through public school like me, so this urgently important part of history was not taught to you.
This book is 1984 before 1984 was written (it’s also nonfiction).
The powers perpetrating mass incarceration and murder throughout this book are still in power today.
Why Abridged?
If you don't have an intimate relationship with Russian history, you will be lost most of the time.
The full audio version is about an 80 hour adventure of dry listening. Difficult even for an audiobook. I suspect this abridged version will be fewer than 40 when I am finished.
This was written for a western audience (that's probably you).
Previous Chapters:
Introduction: https://files.catbox.moe/73kxit.mp3
Chapter 01 - Arrest: https://files.catbox.moe/ep8du7.mp3
Chapter 02 - The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3
Chapter 03 - The Interrogation: https://files.catbox.moe/agp3dl.mp3
Chapter 04 – The Bluecaps: https://files.catbox.moe/takv7w.mp3
Chapter 05 – First Cell, First Love: https://files.catbox.moe/xd1u3r.mp3
Chapter 06 – That Spring: https://files.catbox.moe/12a1lm.mp3
Chapter 07 – In the Engine Room: https://files.catbox.moe/zej3kp.mp3
Chapter 08 - The Law as a Child: https://files.catbox.moe/qhyhws.mp3
**The Gulag Archipelago ABRIDGED**
**Chapter 09 - The Law Becomes a Man: https://files.catbox.moe/cw5kat.mp3**
I give my apologies to the no doubt often mispronounced Russian names and places. Additional apologies for sometimes mispronounced English words…
This Chapter:
*It's five sentences long (got the knife for abridgment). Listen to the 37 seconds of it, or read it here:*
>>*This chapter describes the law “while it is still in its Boy Scout stage,” in the early 1920s. Five trials are traced in detail, among them the 1922 Moscow and Leningrad trials against prominent Church leaders, leading to the execution of the defendants. The objective of these trials is to speed up the repression and the looting of the Church. Lenin draws up the political section of the Criminal Code. Its scope is unlimited.*
Why you should know this book:
- You probably went through public school like me, so this urgently important part of history was not taught to you.
- This book is 1984 before 1984 was written (it’s also nonfiction).
- The powers perpetrating mass incarceration and murder throughout this book are still in power today.
Why Abridged?
- If you don't have an intimate relationship with Russian history, you will be lost most of the time.
- The full audio version is about an 80 hour adventure of dry listening. Difficult even for an audiobook. I suspect this abridged version will be fewer than 40 when I am finished.
- This was written for a western audience (that's probably you).
**Previous Chapters:**
Introduction: https://files.catbox.moe/73kxit.mp3
Chapter 01 - Arrest: https://files.catbox.moe/ep8du7.mp3
Chapter 02 - The History of Our Sewage Disposal System: https://files.catbox.moe/3y8hwv.mp3
Chapter 03 - The Interrogation: https://files.catbox.moe/agp3dl.mp3
Chapter 04 – The Bluecaps: https://files.catbox.moe/takv7w.mp3
Chapter 05 – First Cell, First Love: https://files.catbox.moe/xd1u3r.mp3
Chapter 06 – That Spring: https://files.catbox.moe/12a1lm.mp3
Chapter 07 – In the Engine Room: https://files.catbox.moe/zej3kp.mp3
Chapter 08 - The Law as a Child: https://files.catbox.moe/qhyhws.mp3
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