[Source.](https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/28/50-years-ago-gulag-archipelago-unveiled-a-haunted-world/) > *Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book about the end state of communism ‘to all those who did not live to tell it.’* > Just after Christmas 50 years ago, the original Russian edition of the first two parts of The Gulag Archipelago was published, followed by French and English translations the next year. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book “to all those who did not live to tell it.” > This was followed by second and third volumes in 1975 (parts three and four) and 1976 (parts five through seven), with corresponding translations in 1976 and 1978. Harper Collins publishes an authorized abridged edition.