For centuries, the archipelago's remote location and isolation from the mainland ... of the very first Soviet corrective labor camp, or Gulag. Named the Solovetsky Lager Osobogo Naznacheniya ...

This location experienced a bone-chilling low ... This information spread throughout the entire Gulag Archipelago. The Vorkutlag Uprising of 1953 occurred right after Stalin's passing and began ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and ...

But The Gulag Archipelago, published on December 28, 1973, by YMCA-Press in Paris, stood alone. Solzhenitsyn called it his “main” work, threading personal experience, history and literature ...

Following Voronyanskaya's death, Solzhenitsyn sent out a signal through a network of "invisible allies" to pull the trigger on publishing The Gulag Archipelago. Rolls of film containing photos of ...

The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, published 50 years ago, was much more than a detailed account compiled from the testimonies of hundreds of people; it was also argua ...

Excerpt from the introduction to the newly-abridged Russian version of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Sanya, as the boy was called at home, read a great deal and, strange to say, at ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...