Aleksandr SolzhenitsynI dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
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The Gulag Archipelago is a book written by the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in which he describes in great detail the atrocities of Soviet labor camps. It details the experience of prisoners in the Soviet labor camps, especially during the time of Stalin, when people were sent to labor camps for anything from dissent to political affiliations. After the Russian Revolution, many political dissidents were sent to labor camps. The books suggests that these people would have been better off if they had died in their family homes before their sentences were up. The Gulag Archipelago is dedicated to them because it allows them to be remembered and gives the dead a voice, which they could not have had otherwise.
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