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From Angel Allison
The Communist government in Russia banned this book (Ed. Note: The Gulag Archipelago) after commissioning books of this sort during the deStalinization (the period of time when the communist government tried to show that what Stalin did was wrong and not like true communism) following Stalin's death. It was banned because it went too far in exposing what really went on in the communist system especially in the gulags, or concentration camps that Stalin had set up to send supposed "traitors" to the state. Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in a gulag and rendered a brutally accurate view of this kind of life. His book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, on the same topic, was also banned.