The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power.
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 and , it was published in the West in , thereafter circulating in samizdat underground publication form in the Soviet Union until its official publication in Structurally, the text is made up of seven sections divided in most printed editions into three volumes: parts 1—2, parts 3—4, and parts 5—7. At one level, the Gulag Archipelago traces the history of the system of forced labour camps that existed in the Soviet Union from to , starting with V.
Lenin's original decrees shortly after the October Revolution establishing the legal and practical framework for a series of camps where political prisoners and ordinary criminals would be sentenced to forced labour. It describes and discusses the waves of purges, assembling the show trials in context of the development of the greater Gulag system with particular attention to the legal and bureaucratic development.
The legal and historical narrative ends in , the time of Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech at the 20th Party Congress of denouncing Stalin's personality cult, his autocratic power, and the surveillance that pervaded the Stalin era. Reviewer: Bgniess - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 19, Subject: Life Changing expose Born a war baby in Australia while my father was fighting Japanese invasion in PNG and islands, I was still at university doing the long course of Medicine during the reign of the baby boomers with their nihilistic anarchism response to the cold war with the daily possibility of nuclear annihilation.
Marxism had a grip on the academic communities of all the major universities. Reading Gulag was a long, long process and the going was tedious but the author was able to give a first hand account of real life experiences and true descriptions of the totalitarian and merciless behaviour of the proletarian dictators. Once and for all my mind was able to resist the drip, drip, drip of the propaganda.
No fool, the author describes in excruciating detail a vast spectrum of man's inhumanity to man from prolonged personal experience and recognition of the truth in the the testimony of others. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, dozens of memoirs and new studies covering aspects of that system have been published in Russia and the West.
Using these new resources as well as her own original historical research, Anne Applebaum has now undertaken, for the first time, a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance.
The Gulag was first put in place in after the Russian Revolution. In , Stalin personally decided to expand the camp system, both to use forced labor to accelerate Soviet industrialization and to exploit the natural resources of the country's barely inhabitable far northern regions. By the end of the s, labor camps could be found in all twelve of the Soviet Union's time zones.
The system continued to expand throughout the war years, reaching its height only in the early s. This can not be rejected, neither ignored, neither minimized.
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