It was a grim pleasure to re-read portions of "One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich" in preparation for Tuesday's editorial tribute to the Russian novelist, historian, memoirist and social critic, ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday of heart failure at age 89, was a titan in Russian literature and politics of the 20th century. He survived the Stalinist purges, World War II, eight years in ...

(The top right image comes courtesy of Edward Ericson, Jr. and should not be distributed without his prior consent.) The literary works of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918–August 3, ...

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of ...

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. We cannot avoid revising the fundamental definitions of human life and human ...

This is the third in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. With the Jewish museum closing, I decided to see if I could find the literary ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led tributes on Monday to the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel literature laureate and prominent dissident of the Soviet era, saying his ...

Politeja, No. 62, THE POST-SOVIET SPACE: CHRONIC RESTLESNESS IN THE PERIOD OF UNFINISHED TRANSITION (2019), pp. 237-253 (17 pages) The Russian authorities, supported by the representatives of the ...

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The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes. By Neil MacFarquhar For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot ...