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.

But The Gulag Archipelago, published on December 28, 1973, by YMCA-Press in Paris, stood alone. Solzhenitsyn called it his “main” work, threading personal experience, history and literature ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...

I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn captured in fiction the events that led to the Bolshevik revolution.