The Gulag Arhipelago

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a monumental work that exposes the brutal reality of the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system, known as the Gulag. Based on the author's own experiences as a prisoner, along with testimonies from other inmates, the book documents the widespread arrests, torture, and dehumanization carried out under Stalin's regime. It is both a historical record and a moral indictment of totalitarian oppression. First published in the 1970s, the book played a key role in revealing the crimes of the Soviet state to the world and remains a powerful symbol of resistance to tyranny.