Director Gennady Beglov based this autobiographical movie on his own novella of the ... work about the Soviet camp system titled The Gulag Archipelago. After Khrushchev was deposed and the short ...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations ...

During the autumn of 1989 the director visited the territory of the USSR in search of the places where Polish citizens sent to labor camps had been executed His route was marked out by diaries of ...

Following Voronyanskaya's death, Solzhenitsyn sent out a signal through a network of "invisible allies" to pull the trigger on publishing The Gulag Archipelago. Rolls of film containing photos of ...

The Education Ministry said Wednesday that excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago,” published in 1973, are to be required reading for students. Coming at a time when ...

“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 ...

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 ...