Artistic Interpretation of Epoch and Personality Conflict in «The Gulag Archipelago» and «Kafansiz Komilganlar»

This article examines the artistic interpretation of the conflict between epoch and personality in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's «The Gulag Archipelago» and Shukrulla's «Kafansiz Komilganlar.» Both works represent monumental artistic-documentary narratives that explore the tragic collision between the individual and the totalitarian Soviet system [1][2]. The study analyzes how each author constructs the conflict between historical circumstances and human dignity, focusing on genre characteristics, compositional strategies, and stylistic devices. The research reveals that while Solzhenitsyn presents a panoramic, encyclopedic analysis of the Gulag system as an institutionalized mechanism of oppression, Shukrulla offers an intimate, lyrically-charged portrait of the Uzbek intelligentsia's destruction under Stalinist repressions [2][5]. The article argues that both works, despite their differing scales and cultural contexts, achieve profound artistic truth through the synthesis of personal testimony and documentary evidence, creating powerful models of moral resistance literature [3][4].