The gulag archipelago 19181956 an experiment in literary investigation by aleksandr i. The main characters of this history, non fiction story are. Due to this, he won the nobel prize in literature in 1970, but also was exiled from the soviet union in 1974. Solzhenitsyn s gulag archipelago is a history of the soviet russian system of forced labor concentration camps from 1918 to 1956.
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