Book · 1973 · Nonfiction

The Gulag Archipelago

Name: The Gulag Archipelago
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics (HarperCollins) · 704 pages

★ 8.9 editorial score

Solzhenitsyn served eight years in the camps, then gathered hundreds of survivors' accounts into a single prisoner's journey from arrest through interrogation to the labor gangs. Publishing it got him deported.

Genre

History

Subject

Stalinism Prison camps Russia

Setting

Russia

Time

1973Depicts Soviet EraDepicts 20th century

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