nonfiction classics history challenging dark reflective slow-paced

472 pages | first published 1973

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Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-po...
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Moods

dark 86%
informative 81%
reflective 68%
sad 63%
challenging 54%
tense 36%
emotional 31%
hopeful 13%
inspiring 9%
adventurous 4%
funny 4%

Pace

slow 76%
medium 19%
fast 4%

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