Thursday, September 10, 2009

Gulag Archipelago Made Compulsory

Russia's Minister of Education and Science ordered that Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago be compulsory high school reading. The book was published abroad in 1973 and was banned in the Soviet Union until 1989.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1234932

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