Today would have been Nobel Prize-laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 90th birthday. Even before the end of Nikita Khrushchev's thaw, Solzhenitsyn had become a banned writer and his works began a long ...

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 ...

On Solzhenitsyn's struggle to publish Gulag Archipelago in the waning days of the USSR Suddenly, on 8 September, a “letter by phone” to us in America from senior editor Dima Borisov. The editorial ...

28 December 1973: Perhaps the most politically dangerous of all his books is to be published in Paris today in a Russian edition A new work by Solzhenitsyn, perhaps the most politically dangerous of ...

MOSCOW (AP) - “The Gulag Archipelago” is essential reading for Russian students, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday _ unusual words of praise from a former KGB agent for Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...

Translated by Ehsan Sanaeil Ardakani, the book has been published by Nashre Markaz publishing house in 718 pages, Mehr reported. “The Gulag Archipelago” is a three-volume series written between 1958 ...

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 ...