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. They ...

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 died in the ...

Claremont Institute scholar Daniel J. Mahoney explains why he believes "The Gulag Archipelago" is the greatest book of the ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died yesterday at 89, was one of our greatest chroniclers of Soviet tyranny. Beginning in 1962 with his short novel A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and continuing with ...

) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material ...

“Perhaps I shall die forgotten in Siberia,” says one of the characters in that astonishing novel The First Circle, “But if you die knowing that you are not a swine, that’s something, isn’t it?” The ...

Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday at his home near Moscow, but declined further comment. Through unflinching accounts of the years he spent in the Soviet gulag, ...

MOSCOW -- The book that made "Gulag" a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist ...

I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study ...

MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. Stepan ...

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of ...