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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 839 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Horrors of the Soviet System

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suffered tremendously at the hands of the Soviet regime, and suffered exile twice after his release from the gulag. How many people in the rising generation know about him? A new book seeks to fix that.

Show notes for Ep. 839

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 839.

0:03.3

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0:07.9

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0:14.1

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0:29.2

well. Check it out at harries.com using Code Woods. Hello everybody, Tom Woods here. I have got

0:36.3

a wonderful little book in my hand right now. It's called

0:40.1

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the writer who changed history, written by our guest Margo

0:45.0

Caulfield. This is just a beautiful little book. I don't want to, I'll say something about it when

0:52.2

I start talking to the guest, but let's just say I'm deeply impressed by this book. I absolutely love it. I love the content. I love the layout. I love the presentation. It's extremely well done. And I know I'm always telling people on the show, this is a great book. That's a great book. This is a great documentary. And I get people

1:11.0

saying, we're overwhelmed. Well, there's so many things we want to read. Well, you know,

1:15.1

there are worse problems in the world to have than that, than a lot of choices about things

1:19.0

to do. But if you are interested in this subject, particularly after hearing this

1:24.9

conversation, you're going to want to grab a copy of this book.

1:28.2

Margo, welcome to the show.

1:29.7

Thank you for having me, Tom.

1:31.4

You know, there are a lot of people who write books with a younger audience in mind who think they're good at it, and they're not.

1:39.5

But you don't have the heart to tell them.

1:41.5

But not only is this – first of all, an adult can enjoy this

1:45.2

book, because I enjoyed it, and I learned things about Solchinautson reading this book, but it's

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