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Alexander Solzhenitsyn did all he could to make this prophecy come true. Mr. Aron is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s ...

After all, Putin not only served in the Soviet KGB ... The most prominent case was that of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In February 1974, soon after the publication ...

Solzhenitsyn had been in the United States ... that he had cordial if cautious relations in the early 2000s with Vladimir Putin, although he was staunchly in favor of letting the Soviet Union ...

who is as much a well-known dissident in the West as physicist Andrei Sakharov and author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were during the Soviet era.” Putin famously grieved the collapse of the ...

Mr. Putin gave his boilerplate response about ... citing, among others, Solzhenitsyn and Dostoyevsky — to claim a spiritual superiority over a West he sees as decadent and decaying.

But Solzhenitsyn refused. He was a Russian rather than an American anticommunist. Within months of being elected Russia’s president in 2000, Putin met with Solzhenitsyn. He would draw on ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a statue honouring writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the centenary of his birth Tuesday, hailing as a patriot the dissident whose work was once banned. A ...

Putin quoted a 1978 Harvard lecture by Russian dissident and novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who launched a frontal assault on Western civilisation, decrying the hollow materialism and "the ...

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 ...

Like many who lived in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, I have a personal relationship with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom I never met. It is one of boundless admiration. As a college student in ...