Steve King on the first of a three-volume memoir
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Vol.1 |
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Vol.2 |
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Vol.3 |
Steve King on the first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago: 'The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago was published in Paris on this day in 1973. The writing of the book was surrounded by a swirl of author secrecy and secret police snooping; when a typist was tortured into revealing the whereabouts of one copy of the manuscript and driven to suicide over guilt for doing so, Solzhenitsyn felt compelled to publish.' [Read More]
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