"The Gulag Archipelago" is the most famous book by A.I. Solzhenitsyn. This fundamental study about the repressions of the Stalin era was first published in the early 70s. in the West, then in “samizdat” and only during the years of “perestroika” - in Russia, but to this day the topic has not lost its relevance, and the author’s text is intransigent and passionate. The documentary and artistic epic “The Gulag Archipelago” comprehensively examines the system of punishment introduced in our country under Soviet rule, when millions of innocent people were subjected to hard labor. The writer collected and summarized vast historical material that dispels the myth about the “humanity” of Leninism. This crushing and deeply reasoned criticism of the Soviet system produced the effect of a bomb exploding all over the world. (In the USSR, for reading, storing, distributing (giving someone to read) The Gulag Archipelago you could get up to eight years in prison.)