The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Contents ...... ix
Foreword to the Abridgment ...... xiii
Introduction to the Perennial Classics Edition ...... xv
Author's Note ...... xxiii

PART I • The Prison Industry ...... 38
 Chapter 1 • Arrest ...... 40
 Chapter 2 • The History of Our Sewage Disposal System ...... 56
 Chapter 3 • The Interrogation ...... 76
 Chapter 4 • The Bluecaps ...... 103
 Chapter 5 • First Cell, First Love ...... 119
 Chapter 6 • That Spring ...... 133
 Chapter 7 • In the Engine Room ...... 150
 Chapter 8 • The Law as a Child ...... 157
 Chapter 9 • The Law Becomes a Man ...... 159
 Chapter 10 • The Law Matures ...... 160
 Chapter 11 • The Supreme Measure ...... 166
 Chapter 12 • Tyurzak ...... 174

PART II • Perpetual Motion ...... 184
 Chapter 1 • The Ships of the Archipelago ...... 186
 Chapter 2 • The Ports of the Archipelago ...... 196
 Chapter 3 • The Slave Caravans ...... 203
 Chapter 4 • From Is la1id to Is land ...... 210

PART III • The Destructive-Labor Camps ...... 212
 Chapter 1 • The Fingers of Aurora ...... 214
 Chapter 2 • The ArchipelagoRises from the Sea ...... 218
 Chapter 3 • The Archipelago Metastasizes ...... 230
 Chapter 4 • The Archipelago Hardens ...... 247
 Chapter 5 • What the Archipelago Stands On ...... 251
 Chapter 6 • "They've Brought the Fascists!" ...... 256
 Chapter 7 • The Way of Life and Customs of the Natives ...... 257
 Chapter 8 • Women in Camp ...... 268
 Chapter 9 • The Trusties ...... 275
 Chapter 10 • In Place of Politicals ...... 276
 Chapter 11 • The Loyalists ...... 279
 Chapter 12 • Knock, Knock, Knock... ...... 284
 Chapter 13 • Hand Over Your Second Skin Too! ...... 286
 Chapter 14 • Changing One's Fate! ...... 291
 Chapter 15 • Punishments ...... 295
 Chapter 16 • The Socially Friendly ...... 298
 Chapter 17 • The Kids ...... 303
 Chapter 18 • The Muses in Gulag ...... 316
 Chapter 19 • The Zeks as a Nation ...... 317
 Chapter 20 • The Dogs' Service ...... 318
 Chapter 21 • Campside ...... 325

PART IV • The Soul and Barbed Wire ...... 334
 Chapter 1 • The Ascent ...... 336
 Chapter 2 • Or Corruption? ...... 351
 Chapter 3 • Our Muzzled Freedom ...... 357

PART V • Katorga ...... 366
 Chapter 1 • The Doomed ...... 368
 Chapter 2 • The First Whiff of Revolution ...... 381
 Chapter 3 • Chains, Chains... ...... 382
 Chapter 4 • Why Did We Stand For It? ...... 385
 Chapter 5 • Poetry Under a Tombstone, Truth Under a Stone ...... 392
 Chapter 6 • The Committed Escaper ...... 398
 Chapter 7 • The White Kitten (Georgi Tenno's Tale) ...... 415
 Chapter 8 • Escapes - Morale and Mechanics ...... 416
 Chapter 9 • The Kids with Tommy Guns ...... 420
 Chapter 10 • Behind the Wire the Ground Is Burning ...... 423
 Chapter 11 • Tearing at the Chains ...... 430
 Chapter 12 • The Forty Days of Kengir ...... 440

PART VI • Exile ...... 456
 Chapter 1 • Exile in the First Years of Freedom ...... 458
 Chapter 2 • The Peasant Plague ...... 461
 Chapter 3 • The Ranks of Exile Thicken ...... 470
 Chapter 4 • Nations in Exile ...... 473
 Chapter 5 • End of Sentence ...... 476
 Chapter 6 • The Good Life in Exile ...... 480
 Chapter 7 • Zeks at Liberty ...... 481

PART VII • Stalin Is No More ...... 486
 Chapter 1 • Looking Back on It All ...... 488
 Chapter 2 • Rulers Change, the Archipelago Remains ...... 491
 Chapter 3 • The Law Today ...... 495
Afterword ...... 506
P.P.S. ...... 508
About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...... 510