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There are few books to be found in the history of literature which have had such a great influence on social consciousness and on the very course of world affairs as Alexander Solzhenitsyn?s Gulag Archipelago. The five volume study in history?s most terrifying machine of forced labour, of fear and mass extinction, created by this author who was persecuted, homeless, denied not only of access to documentary sources but also to elementary standards of existence, turned out to be a magic weapon, striking the Communist monster right in its very heart ? the system of total ideological lies and unconsciousness. Returning a voice to the millions tortured by the state, exploited physically or broken spiritually, Solzhenitsyn thus gave back to Russia the possibility of self-knowledge and spiritual self-purification - which it had been deprived of for several decades, and which remains to this day not an accepted fact, but only the hope of revival of one of the greatest civilisations in the history of the world. The scale of the author?s personality and his book becomes clear precisely against this background - in comparison with the history of the country and the world, and not in the enumeration of other Nobel prize winners of literature, with which Solzhenitsyn was honoured in 1970, and which he could receive only four years later - after his 20-year exile from Russia. ?The Gulag Archipelago? is written both on the basis of the author?s personal experience of years in camps (1945-1953) and exile(1953-1956), and on the recollections of hundreds of correspondents - from the academics and old revolutionaries to peasants and former Soviet prisoners of war, who flooded the camp after the war, and which Solzhenitsyn directly witnessed himself. It is surprising that with such difficult sources for the work of the documentary, the book never lost the historical importance: exile to the "Gulag Archipelago" is also interesting for scientific research. At the same time, the intransient literary and human value of ?Gulag Archipelago? lies entirely on another plane: reading it, being immersed in the abysses of suffering, cruelty, fear and folly, and, at the same time, encountering examples of genuine human dignity and compassion, you perceive in a new way your connection to the previous generations, the history of Russia and of mankind in its entirety.

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