http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:30:01 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/175654.php#comment-105608 Posted at Advance 105608@blogcritics.org Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:30:01 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/175654.php#comment-104921 Thanks for a good review. As I recall this book did get reviews in the NYT when it came out. I have not read Applebaum's book, but have read most of Solzhenitsyn. Personally, I can think of nothing that has colored my own world view nearly as much as reading Solzenitsyn's accounts and his analysis of the Gulag. Coming to some understanding of these events will change one's view of the world forever. If "only" 15% of Russians have a positive view of Stalin, the percentage of people in the West with such a view is much higher, mainly due to the staunch support Stalin enjoyed in the US from academics and the left in the 1920s and 1930s. The facts are available, thanks to some survivors and historians like Anne Applebaum. Those who remain ignorant or in denial concerning the Gulag are more culpable than those who deny the Holocaust. 104921@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:53:41 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/21/175654.php#comment-104905 I'm glad that the atrocities committed under Stalin are finally getting some closer study. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the subject is mostly confined to passages in Herman Wouk's "War and Remembrance" saga. Eric Berlin <a href="http://dumpsterbust.blogspot.com">Dumpster Bust</a>: Miracles from Mind Trash http://dumpsterbust.blogspot.com 104905@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:41:17 EST