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5 hours ago · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, is 50 years old. What Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) experienced, researched, received from the testimony of other survivors, and wrote about both describes – stunningly and movingly – and indicts the communist forced-labour camps of the Soviet Union.
The Gulag Archipelago is a history and memoir of life in the Soviet Union’s prison camp system by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in Paris in three volumes in 1973–75.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
At one level, the Gulag Archipelago traces the history of the system of forced labor camps that operated in the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1956. Solzhenitsyn begins with Vladimir Lenin 's original decrees that were made shortly after the October Revolution ; they established the legal and practical framework for a series of camps where political ...
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1973
Aug 4, 2008 · Although more than three decades have now passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed, samizdat manuscripts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago first began circulating...
Jun 21, 2024 · At its height, the Gulag imprisoned millions of people. The name Gulag had been largely unknown in the West until the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956 (1973), whose title likens the labour camps scattered through the Soviet Union to an island chain.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Gulag was a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons. From the 1920s to the mid-1950s it housed p...
- The Gulag, a system of forced-labour camps, was first inaugurated by a Soviet decree of April 15, 1919. It underwent a series of administrative and...
- Western scholars estimate the total number of deaths in the Gulag ranged from 1.2 to 1.7 million during the period from 1918 to 1956.
- The Gulag started to shrink soon after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners were amnestied from 1953 to 1957. The Gula...
Mar 23, 2018 · The Gulag, a brutal system of forced labor camps, was first established in 1919 and grew under Joseph Stalin’s reign as communist dictator of the Soviet Union.
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While the Gulag was radically reduced in size following Stalin’s death in 1953, forced labor camps and political prisoners continued to exist in the Soviet Union right up to the Gorbachev era.
