Excerpts from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 epic The Gulag Archipelago, once banned by Soviet censors, have now been added to the curriculum for high-school students in Russia.The decision by he Education Ministry, announced today, was taken due to "the vital historical and cultural heritage on the course of 20th-century domestic history" contained in Mr. Solzhenitsyn's work, the ministry said.It is believed that over a million Russians perished in the Gulag, created by Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and expanded by Josef Stalin as a clandestine network of prison and labor camps.The Gulag Archipelago, published in the West in 1973, has secretly circulated...
