The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And so I signed. I signed it complete with Section 11, the significance of which I did not then know. They told me only that it would not add to my prison term. But because of that Section 111 was later put into a hard-labor camp. Because of that Section 11 I was sent, even after “liberation,” and without any additional sentence, into eternal exile. Maybe it was all for the best. Without both those experiences, I would not have written this book.