O livro percorre a história do sistema desde 1918: a prisão, o interrogatório, o transporte, o trabalho, as revoltas e a libertação. Circulou em samizdat na União Soviética e só foi publicado oficialmente no país em 1989.
The Gulag Archipelago
A three-volume “experiment in literary investigation”, written in secret between 1958 and 1968 from the author’s own experience and the accounts of more than two hundred former prisoners.
See also
Whole library
MG-00061978BookKolyma Tales
A cycle of short stories about the seventeen years the author spent in the camps, most of them in the gold mines of Kolyma, in the far north-east of Siberia.
MG-00011919Official documentDecree on forced labour camps
The decree ordering forced labour camps in every provincial capital, run by the NKVD: the first legal milestone of the network that became the Gulag in the 1930s.
MG-00021937Official document