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2. The Gulag Archipelago - Wikipedia

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   The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, romanized: Arkhipelag GULAG) is a three-volume non-fiction series written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident.

3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia

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   The Gulag Archipelago was composed from 1958 to 1967, and has sold over thirty million copies in thirty-five languages. It was a three-volume, seven-part work on the Soviet prison camp system, which drew from Solzhenitsyn's experiences and the testimony of 256 [ 53 ] former prisoners and Solzhenitsyn's own research into the history of the ...

4. Russian political jokes - Wikipedia

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   Gulag Archipelago [ edit ] Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's book Gulag Archipelago has a chapter entitled " Zeks as a Nation", which is a mock ethnographic essay intended to "prove" that the inhabitants of the Gulag Archipelago constitute a separate nation according to "the only scientific definition of nation given by comrade Stalin ".

5. ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ Is More Than Just Harrowing - AOL

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6. Alexander Dolgun - Wikipedia

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   He took a job translating medical journals into English for the Soviet Health Bureau and befriended several notable Gulag survivors, including Georg Tenno and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn included some of Dolgun's experiences in his work The Gulag Archipelago. Dolgun married Irene in 1965 and they had a son, Andrew, in 1966.

7. Sergey Zhuk - Wikipedia

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   In August 1933 he was awarded the Order of Lenin. People were not spared on construction, the main thing for the leadership was the fulfillment of the plan. In the book The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn named Zhuk among the main culprits of the mass death of Gulag prisoners during the construction of the canal. [4]

8. Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin

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   This contained official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953), [8] around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, [9] [10] some 390,000 [11] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s, [12] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories. [13]

9. Boris Sveshnikov - Wikipedia

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   In Camp 15, one of many camps in the Gulag Archipelago, Sveshnikov spent about two and a half years. The prisoners at the camp were forced to work for ten to twelve hours a day in digging and laying gas pipelines, regardless of the freezing temperatures in winter which reached -40 °C (-40 °F) and regardless of the clouds of blood-sucking ...