![]() Each kulak’s inner battle with good and evil did not matter. From the Bolsheviks’ perspective, all of the kulaks were evil, as they were a threat to the communist utopia. The kulaks (wealthier, landowning peasants), for an instance, were targeted in the 1930s during Stalin’s purges. ![]() Solzhenitsyn then highlights the problem with revolutions, arguing that they dismantle societies without acknowledging good and evil on an individual level. A photograph of Joseph Stalin by an unknown photographer, 1920 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) However, on an individual level, we can constrict the evil inside ourselves and encourage others to do the same. Instead, he believes the battle between good and evil is fought within every human being.Įxpelling evil from the world is impossible. Solzhenitsyn dispenses with the idea of good and evil on a large scale. This is the most famous extract from The Gulag Archipelago. “Gradually, it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts.” And though The Gulag Archipelago is a response to the villainy of the Soviet Union, these insights are relevant to both our present and our future. ![]() Within the pages of this sizeable text, the author provides several philosophical insights. ![]() He experienced the horrors of the Gulag and went on to record his experiences in The Gulag Archipelago. Leksandr Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for over a decade. ![]()
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