Archipelag GULAG - the world famous epic reveals the meaning and content of the repressive policies of the Soviet Union from the early years of the Soviet of Lenin to Khrushchev (1918-1956). It is an artistic research, translated into dozens of languages, showed a striking clarity of the whole diabolical mechanism of destruction of their own people. The book is based on a large amount of factual material, including - on hundreds of personal testimonies.Traced the fate of the victims, arrest, investigation chopper, Comedy Court, the sentence, the death penalty, and for those who missed it - the years of back-breaking, exhausting work, the inner life of a prisoner - the soul and barbed wire, life in the camps (forced labor and hard labor ), steps from island to island archipelago, camp rebellion, exile, freedom of camp after. The 6th Volume includs Fifth part Katorga, Sixth part - Ssylka and last Seventh - Stalina net. The book provides an annotated index of names (boleedvuh thousand).Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( 11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer, dissident and activist. He helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were often suppressed, he wrote several books most notably The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature,Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.
