Word: gulags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Titled The Gulag Archipelago,* the book is based on Solzhenitsyn's eleven years in prisons, concentration camps and exile, as well as letters that he received from ex-prisoners and interviews that he conducted with 227 survivors of slave-labor camps. Last week, as the Russian text appeared in Paris, and the New York Times began syndicating a 10,000-word excerpt, Gulag struck its early readers as both a literary masterwork and an unparalleled indictment of the Soviet regime...
...Solzhenitsyn off to the fact that one of his major new works was in the West. To his consternation and alarm, Solzhenitsyn read in the magazine's issue of March 21, 1969, that Western publishers were eagerly bidding for his massive documentary novel about Stalinist concentration camps, Arkhipelag Gulag...