Majma' al-jazāyir-i Gūlāg (1): Persiska (Farsi) 1402

The Gulag Archipelago, one of the greatest and most readable narratives in the history of world literature, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 for its author, is actually an attempt to present a comprehensible picture of the extent of the shadow of evil over the lives of millions of Russian citizens during the Soviet Union era, especially the period The rule of Joseph Stalin between 1929 and 1953. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a famous Russian writer and a survivor of Gulag concentration camps in the former Soviet Union, wrote this book in three volumes over ten years and through conversations with more than 220 survivors of other camps. The result is a mixture of the prose of an epic writer, an idealistic historian, and a troubled reformer, with streaks of black humor. What you are reading is the first volume of this collection. No 21st-century reader reading Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece for the first time should imagine that he is reading a straightforward historical narrative. His book is not just a description of history, it is history itself. Thanks to Solzhenitsyn's obsessive attention to detail and his literary and polemical talents, the Gulag Archipelago helped create the very world we live in today.