6/21/2023 0 Comments The gulag archipelago 1918 1956![]() To the book, written in 1958-68 but authorized for Western publication only after the Soviet secret police seized a copy of the manuscript last August, is understandable. "The Gulag Archipelago" is a non-fictional account from and about the other great holocaust of our century-the imprisonment, brutalization and very often murder of tens of millions of innocent Soviet citizens by their own Government, mostlyĪleksandr Solzhenitsyn has called "The Gulag Archipelago" his "main" work, setting it above the major novels that won him the reputation of Russia's pre-eminent living writer and the 1970 Nobel Prize. ![]() The other is to explain the historical origins and causes of that experience. The holocaust, to sear it into the collective consciousness, so that it may never recur. ![]() Ost books about the experience of holocaust, especially those written by survivors, have two purposes. COHENĪn Experiment in Literary Investigation, 1-11. ![]()
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