The Gulag Archipelago Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Numerous studies of the Soviet system of control have been published in the West but until now nothing so complete, so carefully documented and assembled, and never before has a literary giant devoted his gifts of narrative and characterization to the enterprise. Solzhenitsyn has here created and peopled with brilliantly portrayed human beings a... more » vast, overarching fresco of that state within a state which is the Gulag Archipelago.« less