CLASSROOM COUNTRY PROFILES Stalin s Purges and the …

Conditions at the prisons were largely unknown to the outside world and to those who were unaffected by the purges. Word spread of the brutal conditions when accounts began appearing in the underground press, known as samizdat. One such work, The Gulag Archipelago, written by former prisoner and dissident writer

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