The Gulag Archipelago
GULAG Archipelago – the history of repressions, camps and prisons in the Soviet Union (GULAG – General Administration of Camps). The book was completed in 1968. “The Gulag Archipelago” is both a historical study with elements of a parody-ethnographic sketch, and the author’s memories of the camp experience, and an epic of suffering, and martyrology – stories about the martyrs of the Gulag. The history of Soviet concentration camps is centered on the text of the Bible: the creation of the GULAG is presented as the “turned inside out” creation…