Archipelago Gulag

"Archipelago Gulag" is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that exposes the brutal Soviet forced labor camp system, known as the Gulag. It describes how millions of political prisoners and common criminals were sent to remote, harsh prison camps across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1950s. The book details the inhumane conditions, forced labor, and repression that characterized these camps, illustrating the scale and cruelty of Soviet repression. It aims to reveal the human cost of totalitarian control and the resilience of those who endured it.