Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose novels chronicled the daily horrors of life in Soviet gulags, has died from heart failure on August 3 in Moscow at age 89, the Associated ...

In the spring of 1962, rumors started swirling in Prague that "Novy mir," the Soviet literary journal edited by Aleksandr Tvarkovsky, would publish a work by an unknown author that would bare the ...

In Invisible Allies, his tribute to those Russians who, at considerable risk to themselves, helped to further his work while he was under constant surveillance by the KGB, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn told ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was a titan of 20th century Russian literature and politics. He survived the Stalinist purges, World War II, eight years in the Gulag, Communist denunciation, and ...

When I first heard of Alexander Solzhenitsyn during my childhood in the Soviet Union, he was the officially reviled author of forbidden books. To my anti-communist parents and their friends, he was a ...

COMMENTARY: On Oct. 8, 1970, the Russian writer who exposed communism’s hatred for God was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This portrait of Russian author and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...

The man whose books on Soviet-era gulags earned him international acclaim and years of exile from his homeland has died. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died Sunday of heart failure. He was 89. Although ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian and dissident (December 11, 1918-August 3, 2008) pictured in 1974 (Source: Wikipedia) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born 100 years ago today. In the ...

Solzhenitsyn owed much to the great Russian 19th-Century authors As a 10-year-old Alexander Solzhenitsyn had already read Tolstoy's War and Peace and was trying his hand at writing stories and poems.

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Solzhenitsyn owed much to the great Russian 19th-Century authors As a 10-year-old Alexander Solzhenitsyn had already read Tolstoy's War and Peace and was trying his hand at writing stories and poems.