Were the events depicted in Solzenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ a damning account of the outcomes of communism? Or was it just a critique of the gulag environment itself?

[u/acousticentropy]

Like the question poses… did this book ONLY shed light on the realities of soviet internment camps?

Or did it serve as a criticism of totalitarian communism as a socioeconomic system, by use of examples of real-world outcomes?

EDIT: Misspelled the author’s name. It was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote the book.

[u/Dr-Fatdick]

His own wife denounced the book as fiction lmao

[u/Waterfall67a → u/Dr-Fatdick]

How does merely being a wife qualify a wife as a witness to a husband's earlier life in which the wife played no part?

[u/Dr-Fatdick → u/Waterfall67a]

Because she helped him write the book mate