The Gulag Archipelago

The census claim is confirmed. The Paris YMCA-Press Russian émigré edition is the true first and preceded every Western translation; it was pushed into print under emergency conditions after the KGB seized a manuscript copy. The English and French translations of volume 1 followed in the spring and summer of 1974. The census's ordering of the two English editions is NOT established by the sources consulted: Harper & Row (New York, June 1974) and Collins/Harvill Press (London, 1974) both issued the Whitney translation in 1974, but no source consulted fixes the month of the London edition, so state both as 1974 and do not assert that Harper & Row precedes Collins/Harvill. Both English editions are collected; the Russian Paris volumes are the edition of record.