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 ...

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The Education Ministry said Wednesday that excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago,” published in 1973, are to be required reading for students. Coming at a time when ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his ... the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.” But The Gulag Archipelago, published on December 28, 1973, by YMCA-Press in Paris ...

The Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a towering literary figure whose novels, chronicles and essays have lifted the lid on the horrors of the Soviet gulag network, which over several ...

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 ...

When 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, it ...

The Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn captured in fiction the events that led to the Bolshevik revolution.

Like many who lived in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, I have a personal relationship with Alexander Solzhenitsyn ... novella that brilliantly introduced Gulag vernacular to Russian literature ...

That all changed when Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s detailed history of the Gulag was smuggled out of the USSR. The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, published 50 years ago ...

‘Born of the devil and filled with the devil’s blood’ was Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s typically over the top dismissal of the Gulag medical system, which he had encountered at first hand in his years as ...