In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

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The Emergency forged a generation of Gujarati leaders like Narendra Modi, Babubhai Jashbhai Patel, Keshubhai Patel, ...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among the greatest Russian writers, ... “The Gulag Archipelago,” an account of the Soviet Union’s system of labor camps that is at once beautiful and horrifying; ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a political dissident in a prison camp, but it left him deported and stateless ...

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 ...

W he n Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, ...

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 ...