The Gulag Series Introduction

“And in his eyes she read a love such as she had never known”

“… because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

Michel de Montaigne on the need for self-reflection

Divine will, human fallibility and the fortitude of love

“Socialism is as old as human society itself – but not older”

“And so a man cannot grow wise before he has had / his share of winters in the world”

I read five of her major works — find out where you should start with the stream-of-consciousness novelist

A reflection on Margaret MacMillan’s study on war and its essential relationship to human development

Students need to be given the opportunity to formulate their own ideas