Microfilms, Safe Houses and the KGB: The Gulag Archipelago | Documentary Historical - JV

How do you write a book the KGB is determined to destroy? 🔔 Subscribe and join us on this journey around the world → https://bit.ly/WorldView-Documentary 00:00 Introduction 09:17 The “Invisibles” Network 20:38 Hiding the Manuscript Across Multiple Locations 30:38 KGB Surveillance Intensifies 38:15 Smuggling the Published Book Back Into the USSR 42:28 Exile From the Soviet Union 47:29 The Historical Legacy of The Gulag Archipelago It was one of the most important books of the twentieth century. An account so shocking few believed it could be true. But the real story of how Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ came to be published is just as remarkable as the manuscript itself. Terrified he would be arrested by the KGB, Solzehenitsyn wrote his novel in secret safe houses, regularly changing location. Each section of the book was hidden in a different place. A network of selected friends, known as the ’invisibles’, then had to smuggle the manuscript to the West in the form of microfilms. Filming in Moscow, Lithuania, Bremen, Stockholm and Paris, ’Secret History: The Gulag Archipelago’ is an unbelievable trip to the other side of the Iron Curtain. WATCH NEXT: God, Guns and Politics: Inside Christian America    • God, Guns and Politics: Inside Christian A...   America’s Forgotten Border: The Other History of the Wild West    • America’s Forgotten Border: The Other Hist...   Ceaușescu’s Hidden Life: The Dictator Behind Closed Doors    • Ceaușescu’s Hidden Life: The Dictator Behi...   The Untold Story of the Foreign Aces Who Won the Battle of Britain    • The Untold Story of the Foreign Aces Who W...   The Forgotten Women Who Defied Hitler's Air War    • The Forgotten Women Who Defied Hitler's Ai...   Britain's Secret Weapon Against Hitler Revealed    • Britain's Secret Weapon Against Hitler Rev...   The Hidden World of Europe's Islamic Humanitarian Networks    • The Hidden World of Europe's Islamic Human...   SECRET STORY, THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Directed by JEAN CREPU, NICOLAS MILETITCH All Rights Reserved #GulagArchipelago #Solzhenitsyn #SovietUnion #USSR #KGB #Gulag #ColdWar #RussianHistory #HistoryDocumentary #HistoricalDocumentary