[archagon]

That's only an issue if you're treating the book as a primary historical source, but it's a far cry from it being "largely made-up." Dude was transcribing remembered stories from countless conversations with inmates, of course it's not going to be completely accurate.

[hulitu]

> Dude was transcribing remembered stories from countless conversations with inmates, of course it's not going to be completely accurate.

... under the careful guidance of the CIA.

It would have been a much better work if he did not exagerate so much. But, "P: [hopping down from his throne] I'll tell you what I want! I want a last supper with one Christ, twelve disciples, no kangaroos, no trampoline acts, by Thursday lunch or you don't get paid!! "

[archagon]

What are you talking about? He wrote the book covertly in the Soviet Union:

> After the KGB had confiscated Solzhenitsyn's materials in Moscow, during 1965–1967, he worked to develop his preparatory drafts of The Gulag Archipelago into finished typescript. He accomplished some of this while in hiding at his friends' homes in the Moscow region and elsewhere. While held at the KGB's Lubyanka Prison in 1945, Solzhenitsyn had befriended Arnold Susi, a lawyer and former Estonian Minister of Education, who had been taken captive after the Soviet Union occupied Estonia in 1944. Solzhenitsyn entrusted Susi with the original typed and proofread manuscript of the finished work, after copies had been made of it both on paper and on microfilm. Susi got the manuscript to his daughter, Heli Susi, who kept the "master copy" hidden from the KGB in Estonia until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.