Russia Makes 'Gulag' Required Reading

The Associated Press:
Russia has made a once-banned book recounting the brutality and despair of the Soviet Gulag required reading in the country's schools. The Education Ministry said excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 epic "The Gulag Archipelago" have been added to the curriculum for high-school students. The three-volume book was banned by Soviet censors, sparking Solzhenitsyn’s retreat into exile. ... It is thought more than a million Russians perished in the Gulag, a sprawling network of secret prison and labor camps created by Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and expanded by Stalin.

Posted by Editor at September 11, 2009 12:16 AM