In 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's description of the Soviet labour camps in his book, The Gulag Archipelago caused an international sensation. Through archives and interviews, we take a fascinating ...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations ...