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* [[Bad Boss]]: too many Gulag camp managers to count. In many cases they were responsible to no one and had total control over the ''zek''s' lives, with predictable results.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: ...but there were a few, very few, managers and guards who kept their human decency.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Various forms of this were employed as interrogation techniques, though it was noted with irony the best methods tended to be prolonged sleeplessness, though this took the longest to actually achieve in practice.
* [[Doorstopper]]: It is very large book, normally published in three heavy volumes.
* [[Holier Than Thou|More Communist Than Thou]]: many of the Communist prisoners being purged still think themselves loyal to Stalin's regime, convinced that it was all a mistake that they were arrested, whereas everybody around them are of course scum and deserve every moment of their sentence. Solzhenitsyn distinguishes between them and the true socialists who carried their beliefs in their hearts and not on their sleeves--and were arrested because of it.
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