The GULag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Contents

Preface ix

part I The Prison Industry

1. Arrest 3

2. The History of Our Sewage Disposal System 24

3. The Interrogation 93

4. The Bluecaps 144

5. First Cell, First Love 179

6. That Spring 237

7. In the Engine Room 277

8. The Law as a Child 299

9. The Law Becomes a Man 334

10. The Law Matures 371

11. The Supreme Measure 432

12. Tyurzak 456

part II Perpetual Motion

1. The Ships of the Archipelago 489

2. The Ports of the Archipelago 533

3. The Slave Caravans 565

4. From Island to Island 588

Translator’s Notes 616

Glossary:

Names 621

Institutions and Terms 637

Index 642

ILLUSTRATIONS

page 2 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

In the army In detention After his release from camp

page 488 Viktor Petrovich Pokrovsky Aleksandr Shtrobinder Vasily Ivanovich Anichkov Aleksandr Andreyevich Svechin Mikhail Aleksandrovich Reformatsky Yelizaveta Yevgenyevna Anichkova