Stalin and the Soviet Union Answers

What experience does Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describe in the excerpt from The Gulag Archipelago?

Sample response:During Stalin's dictatorship, the government took more and more control of Soviet life and economy. The collectivization of agriculture resulted in the deaths of millions of peasants, as a result of famine. The Great Purge occurred as Stalin tried to eliminate any opposition to his rule. Millions of citizens were arrested. Most had done nothing wrong, yet they were convicted of crimes and even executed. Others were sent to prison camps called gulags. Most people lived in terror o