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 know of the book’s historical importance an ...

an associate of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, had either killed herself or been murdered after the KGB uncovered her hidden manuscript of The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus laid bare the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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’s ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following ... the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.” But The Gulag Archipelago, published on December 28, 1973, by YMCA-Press in Paris ...

That all changed when Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s detailed history of the Gulag was smuggled out of the USSR. The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, published 50 years ago ...

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 ...