Документы, отражающие личный опыт узников ГУЛАГа (дневники, переписка, автобиографическая проза), сыграли важную роль в распространении информации о советских лагерях с самого начала их возникновения

Much of what happened in the Gulag has been left unrecorded, unexamined, and unexpiated. The historian David Satter recently made the assertion that “Russia today is haunted by words that have been left unsaid” 

This essay argues that the Gulag was fixed neither in space nor in time