The Gulag Archipelago is a non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1973, and translated into English and French the following year. The book chronicles the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system (the Gulag) from 1918 to 1956, during the communist regime.
"The book 'Gulag Archipelago' is mentioned as an example of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union, specifically how people were ground to death and records of it were burned."