The Impact of Solzhenzyn's First Hand Accounts in the Gulag Archipelago

In the 1920s, there were a lot of apologists who believed or hoped that the Soviet system was creating a new man. They were eager to believe that something new and better was going on. There became an awareness somewhere between 1935 and 1955 that something was very rotten there. Solzhenzyn's first hand accounts in the Gulag Archipelago made his story even more important than Walter Durandi had previously thought.