In September 1973, Yelizaveta Voronyanskaya, an associate of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, had either killed herself or been murdered after the KGB uncovered her hidden manuscript of The Gulag Archipelago.

MOSCOW – Alexander Solzhenitsyn ... Through unflinching accounts of the eight years he spent in the Soviet Gulag, Solzhenitsyn’s novels and nonfiction works exposed the secret history of ...

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 ...

the stark reality of the characters he set upon the stage of his novels and the moral vision that suffused these works were what made Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died this week at ...

How much impact can one book have? If that book is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago," quite a bit. When it was published in the West in 1973, Solzhenitsyn's most famous work ...

Woven into Solzhenitsyn’s account of torture, starvation and hard labor in the gulag—evil that many would take as evidence that a benevolent God doesn’t exist—is the story of how he found ...

Today's piece has Bill extolling the anti-communist power of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, and noting the loudest critics have the most to lose by its widespread publication.

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 ...

In 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel prize for literature, but he wasn’t permitted to leave the country to accept it. In 1973 he completed the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, a thundering ...

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 ...