ABSTRACT
Novy Ierusalim—”New Jerusalem,” a pregnant name for a corrective labour camp—and set in the “Russian Switzerland.” One of the things that stands out in Solzhenitsyn’s descriptions of New Jerusalem in The Gulag Archipelago is the vivid recollection of his white-hot indignation and outrage over the sheer bovine stupidity of the camp arrangements. Releases from New Jerusalem had begun only with the arrival of the “Fascists,” for the new work-force was needed to take the place of the old. Solzhenitsyn then discovered that it was only professional thieves and civil offenders who were to benefit from the July amnesty—he himself witnessed dozens of them being released from New Jerusalem and returning to Moscow.
