What strikes Holmquist most is that Solzhenitsyn had every right to be a “victim.” His regular persecution gave him a much bigger claim to victimhood than any “victim” of modern. He had years in ...

What The Gulag Archipelago still teaches, 50 years later. A review of March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Marian Schwartz. A vivid depiction of ...

The region was home to four special camps renowned for brutality, as highlighted in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s landmark expose “The Gulag Archipelago.” Stalin’s prisoners, convicted as ...

I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn.

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations ...

Nobel laureate, Orthodox Christian author, and Russian dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in his “Godlessness: the First Step to the Gulag” address, given when he received the Templeton Prize for ...

Michael Foucault bequeathed a conceptual tool with which we posit the question: What is the world like for many of those who went through the Bhalagwe concentration camp? The same question is apposite ...

Writer, philosopher, and novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn survived a decade in Soviet prison camps, his time documented in the two-volume set titled “The Gulag Archipelago.” He exposed the ...