Article: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Empire-Slayer.(The Gulag Archipelago)

ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Empire-Slayer

SOLZHENITSYN's massive Gulag Archipelago was published in English in three volumes between 1974 and 1978. It is one the indispensable books of the last fifty years not least because it undermined the moral and political legitimacy of the entire Communist enterprise. This unique experiment in literary investigation" brilliantly wove together Solzhenitsyn's personal experience and the testimony of 256 former prisoners with historical research and spiritual reflection. It allowed readers on both sides of the Iron Curtain to encounter totalitarian oppression as though for the first time, "to hear and see what it was all ...

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