The Gulag Archipelago - My wife got me the full trilogy of these books for Christmas and I'm about half the way through the first one. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn describes in detail the physical and psychological horrors inflicted on millions of political prisoners in the Soviet era. This chapter discusses ‘the Bluecaps’, those members of State Security responsible for the investigations, arrests and interrogations. Summary: “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is a non-fictional account about the Soviet forced labor camps that led to the imprisonment, brutalization and very often murder of tens of millions of innocent Soviet citizens by their own Government. In 1973, The Gulag Archipelago was published in the West by Russian historian and Gulag survivor Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (though only a few underground copies were … The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labor camp system. There are no redeeming features of it, despite what those insane members of the modern far-left might tell you. This system has also become known as the Gulag Archipelago based on the title of the book written by Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The map above, shows the locations of the Soviet Union’s Gulag forced labour camps, that existed between 1923 and 1961. The Gulag Archipelago – Vol 1 – Chapter 4-6 (Post 2) Books / By admin. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago) These words were penned by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian author most famous for his book The Gulag Archipelago which provides a harrowing account of the Soviet prison system, and Soviet society in general, during the country’s great communist experiment of the 20 th century. Human nature is more powerful than ideology. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a gulag labor camp. The Gulag Archipelago is an “experiment in artistic/literary investigation,” in Solzhenitsyn’s description of it, in no small part because of its power to illustrate the sparks of the spirit that miraculously survived the assaults of ideology. The Gulag Archipelago is full of anecdotes and stories about the horrors of the camps and stands as a living testament to the evils of socialism and what miserable circumstances it leads to. The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The Gulag or GULAG (Russian: ГУЛАГ, an acronym for Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerey, Главное Управление Лагерей) was the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labor camps set up by order of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s. I've read plenty of Russian history but just hadn't gotten around to reading this, though it's arguably the m Chapter 4 – The Bluecaps.