Questions on/in The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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1. What's it like to live under the communist system?

2. Where does evil come from? How does it manifest?

3. Why and when does it become so difficult to speak the truth?

4. How far can a human being be reduced?

5. How can one speak of God in the world of absurdity where injustice is rampant?

6. How does the mob psychology play out in a situation where the fundamental human dignity is deprived?

7. Can humanity be restored after we see how horrible we can be to one another?

8. What would it be like to do something backbreaking but completely pointless, good for nothing, for years?

9. What does lack of freedom teach us?

10. How is it possible for one's soul to rise in the labor camp?

11.  Why do the torturers prosper?

12. How does a human being become evil or good?

13. What's the difference between prison and camp?

14. Why is the idea "human beings are created for happiness" a pitiful ideology?

15. How far can our moral faculty be hardened? 

16. How does suffering affect our psychology? 




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