The Gulag Archipelago is a work of literary and historical non-fiction by the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet system of forced labour camps. Drawing on his own eight years as a prisoner and on the testimonies and letters of hundreds of other prisoners, he traced the network of arrests, interrogations and camps from the early years of Soviet rule. The manuscript was seized by the KGB, and the book was first published in Russian in Paris, after which it was widely translated. It had a strong effect on Western opinion of the Soviet Union and damaged the credibility of communism among many left-wing readers. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union, and the work was finally published in Russia in the late 1980s.
Before and after
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- 1973Publication of The Gulag Archipelago
- 1973Founding of Islamic Development Bank
- 1973Establishment of Hortobágy National Park
- 1973Establishment of Kilimanjaro National Park
- 1973The Endangered Species Act and CITES
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