Everytime I've seen this book discussed on /lit/ it turns

pesis

the /lit/ commies come out in full force to defend their retarded ideology

>There had been works about the Soviet prison/camp system before, and its existence had been known to the Western public since the 1930s. However, never before had the general reading public been brought face to face with the horrors of the Gulag in this way. The controversy surrounding this text, in particular, was largely due to the way Solzhenitsyn definitively and painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal, and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin's feet, not Stalin's. According to Solzhenitsyn's testimony, Stalin merely amplified a concentration camp system that was already in place. This is significant, as many Western intellectuals viewed the Soviet concentration camp system as a "Stalinist aberration".

tl;dr butthurt gommie apologists

>>8910763
>The sheer volume of firsthand testimony and primary documentation that Solzhenitsyn managed to assemble in The Gulag Archipelago made all subsequent Soviet and KGB attempts to discredit the work useless. Much of the impact of the treatise stems from the closely detailed stories of interrogation routines, prison indignities and (especially in section 3) camp massacres and inhuman practices.
Will they ever recover?

>>8910763
>>8910785
It makes sense, I also remember some anon (probably russian) saying that the book was quietly banned from his country.

>>8910792
It's been required reading in Russia since 2009. Solzhenitsyn came back to Russia and sucked some mad Putin dick before he died. The government uses this book to distance themselves from the USSR but if you look around the country the Russian people don't give a shit about the gulags. They're stronger than Germans for that.