 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - The Gulag Archipelago yakaumbwa kubva muna 1958 kusvika muna 1967, uye yatengesa makopi anopfuura mamiriyoni makumi matatu mumitauro makumi matatu nemishanu. Rakanga riri bhuku rine mavhoriyamu matatu, rine zvikamu zvinomwe pamusoro pesangano remisasa yevasungwa yeSoviet, iro rakavakirwa pazviitiko zvaSolzhenitsyn nouchapupu hwevaimbova vasungwa 256 uye kutsvakurudza kwaSolzhenitsyn pachake munhau yehurongwa hwevasungwa veRussia. Inokurukura mavambo ehurongwa kubva pakuvambwa kwehurumende yeCommunist, naVladimir Lenin aine mutoro, achitsanangura nzira dzekubvunzurudza, kutakura vasungwa, tsika yemusasa wevasungwa, kumukira kwevasungwa uye kumukira senge kumukira kweKengir, uye muitiro wokudzingwa mukati. Munyori wenhau dzakaitika weSoviet neCommunist uye muongorori wezvinyorwa Stephen G. Wheatcroft akanyora kuti bhuku iri raive basa rekunyora uye rezvematongerwo enyika, uye haana kumbotaura kuti akaisa misasa mune nhoroondo kana yemagariro-yesainzi huwandu hwemaonero asi kuti kana zvasvika pakufungidzira kwehunhu, Solzhenitsyn akapa fungidziro yake yepamusoro sezvo aida kupokana nezviremera zveSoviet kuratidza kuti chiyero chemisasa chaive chidiki pane izvi. Munyori wenhau dzakaitika J. Arch Getty akanyora nezvenzira yaSolzhenitsyn yokuti zvinyorwa zvakadaro hazvibvumirwi nedzimwe ndima dzenhau, izvo zvinokoshesa kutaura kwakashata uye zvinotungamirira kukusarudza kusarura. Maererano nomunyori wenhau Anne Applebaum, uyo akaita tsvakurudzo huru paGulag, The Gulag Archipelago inzwi romunyori rakapfuma uye rakasiyana-siyana, kuruka kwaro kwakasiyana kweuchapupu hwomunhu oga, kuongorora kwouzivi, uye kunzvera kwenhau, uye kupomera kwaro kusingadzoreki kwedzidziso yechiKomonisiti kwakachiita rimwe remabhuku ane simba zvikurusa ezana ramakore rechi 20. 