Can there be a duty to read a work of literature? Most people I’ve met who are at least aware of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago know that they should read the book. They ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...

MOSCOW -- "The Gulag Archipelago" is essential reading for Russian students, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday - unusual words of praise from a former KGB agent for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ...

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COMMENTARY: On Oct. 8, 1970, the Russian writer who exposed communism’s hatred for God was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This portrait of Russian author and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...

Although more than three decades have passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed samizdat versions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago began circulating in what used to be ...

MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure. He was 89. Stepan Solzhenitsyn told the ...

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of ...

MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. Stepan ...