The Gulag Archipelago Exposes Soviet Atrocities
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Communism, Communists, Dictatorships, Dictators, Tyrants
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Moscow, Soviet Union, Russia, Switzerland, Vermont, New England
- Date: 1973-1975
Article abstract: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago trilogy unveiled the inhumane and arbitrary nature of the Soviet police state with a wealth of compelling personal testimony and historical analysis.
Summary of Event
Like many other works by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arkhipelag gulag, 1918-1956 (1973-1975; The Gulag Archipelago, 1974-1978) was completed years before it got published. Solzhenitsyn worked on this massive tome of “literary investigation” from 1958 to 1968, a period during which acclaimed novels such as...
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