This is part 1 of 3 on Chapter 8 of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn takes a step back to examine the legal foundations for the gulag system, how it started with revolutionary tribunals after the October Revolution. The key thing is not guilt or innocence but revolutionary expediency, revolutionary consciousness, and the … Continue reading Chapter 8: The Law as a Child – Part 1