The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago was the name of the network of Soviet internment and punishment camps where millions of people were held during the second half of the 20th century. In this monumental document, Solzhenitsyn, who was confined in one of those camps, painstakingly reconstructs life inside the prison industry in Soviet times, and his dissection becomes a journey through fear, pain, cold, hunger and death, with which the totalitarian regime silenced all dissent.