This is part 2 of 3 on Chapter 7 of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The history of imprisonment without formal sentence in Russia: sometimes the Tsar packed someone off to Siberia, but it didn’t happen to many people. The Soviet system moved at an industrial scale. How the benefits of bureaucracy are abused … Continue reading Chapter 7: In the Engine Room – Part 2 Bureaucratic Sentencing