Powieść dokumentalna Franciszka Alachnowicza „7 lat w szponach GPU”: geneza utworu, cztery wersje

“7 Years in the Clutches of the GPU” by Franciszek Alachnowicz is a very important book in Belarusian literature. Using his own experience Alachnowicz showed how the Gulag and the process of humiliating a man functioned. In the article its author demonstrates the way Alachnowicz returned to his text four times and each time he supplemented it by adding new details. The book was published in Polish in 1935 and in 1937, and in Belarusian in 1937 and in 1942.