The book likened the scattered camps to " a chain of islands " and depicted the Gulag as a system where people were worked to death.

The Gulag Archipelago () is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labour camp system.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in his book about the Soviet era labor camps, Gulag Archipelago, quoted Chekhov extensively to illustrate the enormous deterioration of living conditions of the inmates in the Soviet era compared with those of the katorga inmates of Chekhov's time.

During the Soviet era, Jezkazgan was the site of a Gulag labor camp, Kengir, mentioned in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago, and Alexander Dolgun's " An American In The Gulag ".

In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and walked over south, through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas to finally reach British India in the winter of 1942.

According to the account in the book, Rawicz was transported, alongside thousands of others, to Irkutsk and made to walk to the Gulag Camp 303, which was 650 km south of the Arctic Circle.

Anne Applebaum, journalist and author of Gulag: A History described the book as " a serious, scholarly history of Communist crimes in the Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, China, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Africa, and Latin America ...

Gwynne Dyer praised the book for documenting " Mao's crimes and failures in unrelenting, unprecedented detail " and stated he believed it would eventually have a similar impact in China as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago did in the Soviet Union.

Caroline Elkins ' tells the story of the ' Hola Massacre ' in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, ( 2005 ), pages 344-353.

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book, " The Gulag Archipelago ", was banned from United Nations bookstalls in Geneva, on the grounds that it was offensive to a member nation, John Biggs-Davison asked James Callaghan, then Foreign Secretary, if he was satisfied that nothing offensive to the United Kingdom was sold at UN headquarters.

* A World Apart ( book ), a 1950 book on the Gulag by Gustaw Herling

In September 2009, the Education ministry of Russia announced that Alexander Solzhenitsyn's " The Gulag Archipelago ", a book once banned in the Soviet Union for the detailed account on the system of prison camps GULAG became the required reading for Russian high-school students.

The ecology of the Maluku Islands has fascinated naturalists for centuries ; Alfred Wallace's book, The Malay Archipelago was the first significant study of the area's natural history, and remains an important resource for studying Indonesian biodiversity.

In the third book, The Indigo King, it is revealed that Mordred was born as Madoc in a place called the Archipelago of Dreams, from which he was exiled for trying to use knowledge of the future to shape it.

In 1869 British anthropologist Alfred Russel Wallace described the colonial governing structure in his book " The Malay Archipelago ":

The book Sailing directions for South America of FitzRoy led Chilean hydrographer Francisco Hudson to infer the possible existence of sailing route through internal waters from Chiloé Archipelago to Straits of Magellan, but Hudson was however the first to realise that the Isthmus of Ofqui made this impossible.

The 19th century naturalist Alfred Wallace used the term " Malay Archipelago " as the title of his influential book documenting his studies in the region.

Wallace used the term “ Malay Archipelago ” as the title of his influential book documenting his studies in the region.

On November 3, 1911, he shot dead an adult specimen in the northwest region, between Gunung Gondol and Banyupoh River, documenting it in his book " In The East Indian Archipelago " ( Budapest 1913 ).

The zoologist William Alexander Forbes, who died on an expedition to West Africa in 1883, was H. O. Forbes's friend and fellow-classmate at the University of Edinburgh ; the book A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago is dedicated to him.

It was also during this time when he would show interests in ethnography, especially folklore: in 1867, História da Poesia Popular Portuguesa ( English: History of Popular Portuguese Poetry ), Cancioneiro Popular ( English: Collection of Popular Poems ) and Romanceiro Geral, and then later ( 1869 ) the book Cantos Populares do Arquipélago Açoreano ' ( English: Popular Stories of the Azorean Archipelago ).

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

In response, one month later, the Soviet Union published Falsifiers of History, a Stalin edited and partially re-written book attacking the West.

The book also included the claim that, during the Pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's offer to share in a division of the world, without mentioning the Soviet offers to join the Axis.

The proposition that special operations by the CIA in Saudi Arabia affected the prices of Soviet oil was refuted by Marshall Goldman — one of the leading experts on the economy of the Soviet Union — in his latest book.

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

" The book also included the claim that, during the Pact's operation, Stalin rejected Hitler's offer to share in a division of the world, without mentioning the Soviet offers to join the Axis.

Peter Wright, former senior MI5 officer, said in his 1987 book that Litzi Friedmann was " almost certainly the person who recruited him to the Soviet cause.

Dr. Valerius Geist, who emigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union, wrote in his 1999 book Moose: Behaviour, Ecology, Conservation:

The book also claimed that the Munich agreement was a " secret agreement " between Germany and " the west " and a " highly important phase in their policy aimed at goading the Hitlerite aggressors against the Soviet Union.

In 1943, the Soviet film Nasreddin in Bukhara was directed by Yakov Protazanov based on Solovyov's book, followed in 1947 by a film called The Adventures of Nasreddin, directed by Nabi Ganiyev and also set in the Uzbekistan SSR.

The term was popularized by the Soviet dissident Michael Voslenski, who in 1970 wrote a book titled Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class ().

Milovan Đilas, an opponent of the Soviet regime, wrote of the nomenklatura as the new class in his book The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System, and he claimed that it was seen by ordinary citizens as a bureaucratic élite that enjoyed special privileges and had supplanted the earlier wealthy capitalist élites.

Soviet astronomer Iosif Shklovskii wrote the pioneering book in the field Universe, Life, Intelligence ( 1962 ), which was expanded upon by American astronomer Carl Sagan as the best-selling Intelligent Life in the Universe ( 1966 ).

This later becomes an important element in the next chronological book, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, in persuading a top Soviet official to defect to America.

The book occurs after the Persian Gulf War and before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

In the book Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon, it is claimed that he flew the U-2 spy plane, a U. S. Air Force aircraft which took the pictures of Soviet missiles in Cuba which President Kennedy used on television on October 22, 1962.

In his book The Cold War Gaddis argues that, in their use of the phrase " evil empire ," Reagan and his anti-Communist political allies were effective in breaking the détente tradition, thus laying the ground for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

Early in 1998, reports of a forthcoming book allegedly containing revelations about the origins of the so-called " Zinoviev letter ," based on information from Soviet archives led to renewed press speculation and parliamentary questions.

Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel Farewell to Matyora and in his non-fiction book, Siberia, Siberia.

In a subsequent book, Crimes And Mercies ( 1997 ), Bacque claimed that Allied policies ( particularly Soviet policies ) led to the premature deaths of 5. 7 million German civilians, 2. 5 million ethnic German refugees from Eastern Europe and 1. 1 million German P. O. W. s due to Allied starvation and expulsion policies in the five years following World War II.