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This second level in Solzhenitsyn's narrative chronicles the appalling inhumanity of the Soviets' "Destructive-Labor Camps" and the fate of prisoners in them-felling timber, building canals and railroads, and mining yellow metal without equipment or adequate food or clothing, and subject always to the caprices of the camp government bodies. Most tragic of most is the life span of the ladies prisoners and the luckless children they keep. Once more, this chronicle of appalling inhumanity is manufactured endurable by the vitality and psychological selection of the writing. In a single truly remarkable section, a parody of anthropological treatise, Solzhenitsyn achieves new levels of sardonic wit. And in the ultimate section, the music changes and he provides a superb coda on the possibilities of redemption and purification through suffering.
