In December 1973, a Paris publishing house began printing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. The book, which exposed the horrors of Soviet communism, has been cited as one of the ...

Although more than three decades have now passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed, samizdat manuscripts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago first began circulating ...

Today would have been Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 90th birthday. Even before the end of Nikita Khrushchev's thaw, Solzhenitsyn had become a banned writer and his works began a long period of secret ...

"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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Published 50 years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s account of the Soviet Union’s barbaric system of forced labor camps is arguably the 20th century’s greatest work of nonfiction.

The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, published 50 years ago, was much more than a detailed account compiled from the testimonies of hundreds of people; it was also ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's widow is unveiling an abridged version of "The Gulag Archipelago" as required reading for Russian students about the crimes of the Soviet regime.

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.

"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 ...