Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago. Volume 2

New York, London: Harper Row, 1973. — 579 p.The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn’s attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953.