Why Was The Gulag Archipelago Banned?
Why Was The Gulag Archipelago Banned? This past week, Russia’s education ministry announced that the country’s high schools will now require students to read excerpts from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. Perhaps more than any other work, this formerly-banned book exposed the extent and horrors of Soviet oppression. Was the Gulag Archipelago banned? This past