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The Gulag Archipelago
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The Gulag Archipelago
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Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Original title Apхипeлaг ГУЛAГ
Translator Geneviève Johannet, José Johannet, Nikita Struve (French)
Thomas P. Whitney (English)
Country France
Language Russian
Publisher Éditions du Seuil
Publication date
1973
Published in English
1974
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN 0-06-013914-5
OCLC 802879
Dewey Decimal
365/.45/0947
LC Class HV9713 .S6413 1974
The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Apхипeлaг ГУЛAГ, Arkhipelag GULAG) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labor camp system. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a gulag labor camp. Written between 1958 and 1968, it was published in the West in 1973 and, thereafter, circulated in samizdat (underground publication) form in th
Soviet Union until its appearance in th
Russian literary journal, Novy Mir, in 1989, i
which a third of the work was published ove
three issues.[1]
GULag or Gulág is an acronym for the Russian term Glavnoye Upravleniye ispraviteln
trudovyh Lagerey (Глaвнoe Упpaвлeни
Иcпpaвитeльнo-тpyдoвых Лaгepeй), or "Chie
Administration of Corrective Labour Camps"
the bureaucratic name of the governing boar
of the Soviet labour camp system, and b
metonymy, the camp system itself. The origina
Russian title of the book is Arkhipelag GuLag
the rhyme supporting the underlying metapho
deployed throughout the work. The wor
archipelago compares the system of lab
camps spread across the Soviet Union with
ast "chain of islands", known only to those wh
were fated to visit them.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, The
ulag Archipelago has been officially published and since 2009 included in the h