These drawings depict the life of the Soviet Gulag prisoners.
In one case study, Gregory recounts the story of Vladimir Moroz, whose father was executed in 1937 and whose mother was sent to the Gulag.
The road, built by Gulag inmates, many of whom died in the process, travels 1, 200 miles to Magadan on the Pacific.
His most famous novels, The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, for which he received the award, exposed the brutality of the Soviet Union's forced labour camps.
"The Gulag Archipelago" described the system, its tortures, rules and subculture, in relentless, gruesome, encyclopedic form.
Kennan was right to call "Gulag" a powerful indictment of a regime.
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