Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among the greatest Russian writers, will be long read and remembered, but not as a social and political prophet.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Nobel Prize winner for literature, professional recluse, harsh critic of Western boorishness, and vociferous critic of communism, is planning a long-awaited, long ...

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 ...

The Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), one of the great writers of the 20th century, helped to inform the world about the evils of the Gulag, the Soviet prison-camp system, in ...

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn, University of Notre Dame Press. 228 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

In an interview with SPIEGEL, prominent Russian writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn discusses Russia's turbulent history, Putin's version of democracy and his attitude to life and death.

That is precisely the picture Alexander Solzhenitsyn presents in the four volumes of “March 1917,” his series of historical novels, written between 1969 and 1991, that describe the chaotic ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died at age 89, his son said Monday.

A lesser-known speech by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974, shortly after his exile from the USSR, prefigured themes he would revisit in his 1978 Harvard address ...

When Alexander Solzhenitsyn sought refuge in the West, he looked for a place whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland. The southern Vermont town of Cavendish was just ...