![]() Thankfully for us he not only survived his incarceration but went on to describe his experiences in a series of remarkable books, the first of which was One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. ![]() The young captain of artillery, whose ‘crime’ was to include a few mildly derogatory terms about Stalin in a private letter to a friend, was pulled out of combat so he could be uselessly tipped into the ever-open maw of systematised Soviet slave labour. In 1945, Captain Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn became one of those 18 million, and for eight years he endured the misery, injustice and insanity of the GULAG. In the fourth of a series of articles for Northern Soul, Alfred Searls explores how 1917 – and the Soviet society which developed in its shadow – has been portrayed by writers since that momentous year of revolution.īetween 19, an estimated 18 million soviet citizens passed through the Soviet forced labour camp system around three million didn’t survive the experience. This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. ![]()
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