Which author wrote The Gulag Archipelago, published in the 1970s, leading to his arrest and exile in 1974?

• A. Mikhail Sholokhov
• B. Vladimir Nabokov
• C. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• D. Boris Pasternak

Answer: (C)

The author who exposed the brutal realities of the Soviet camp system in a monumental, documentary-style work is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago, released in the early 1970s, blends personal testimony with extensive research to reveal how the Gulag operated and affected countless lives. Its impact was that of a bold, uncompromising indictment of repression, which the Soviet authorities deemed dangerous. In response, Solzhenitsyn was arrested in 1974 and expelled from the Soviet Union, marking a dramatic turn in his life and turning the book into a symbol of dissident literature. The other writers listed are renowned for different works and contexts, but none authored this particular expose of the Gulag.