><URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2083535/ >
>
>By Stephen Kotkin, kotkin at princeton.edu
>author of, "Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization, " and
>more recently, "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000,
>(2001)
>
>Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982)
>
>Samizdat poem to camp "goners," set in what today is a recreational
>destination in Russia's Magadan province (translated by Anne
>Applebaum and Galya Vinogradova).
Etc.
Just why do we need this now? Why this ceaseless harping on the gulag? GItmo seems a tad more urgent right now.
Doug