He based his book, "Walks Around the Barracks" (written in 1980, published in 1988), on the diaries he kept during his time in the Gulag.
Затем, уже в период ссылки, на базе этих дневников была написана книга «Прогулки вокруг барака» (в 1980 написана, опубликована в 1988).