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Gulag prison camps were established to isolate and eliminate dissenters of the Communist Party.
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Ivan is expected to serve eight years and actually serves four.
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Writing the book as a memoir of his own experiences would have been dangerous and likely have cost the author his life. Even at the time of publication, releasing the book put Solzhenitsyn's life in danger.
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