Now, if The Gulag Archipelago solely comprised these elements—the historical-developmental narrative, the political-philosophic analysis, and the functional-diagnostic portrait (all of which ...

“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 ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's widow is unveiling an abridged version of "The Gulag Archipelago" as required reading for Russian students about the crimes of the Soviet regime.

The Gulag Archipelago was first printed in Paris in December 1973.The book landed, as Ignat describes it, like a "bomb," exploding all remaining arguments for the Marxism that had destroyed ...

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 ...

After publication, “The Gulag Archipelago” circulated underground and soon reached the West in translation. A furious Kremlin expelled Solzhenitsyn from his native country in 1974, and he ...

Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union Published on this day in 1973, “The Gulag Archipelago” drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ...

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; ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 in Kislovodsk. 1 His parents, both of whom were of peasant stock and were the first in their families to gain an education, were married in August 1917 at the ...