When the doorbell to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Moscow apartment rang on February 12, 1974, his wife, Natalia, cracked open the door to see who was outside. Realizing it was the KGB, she immediately ...

MOSCOW (AP) - “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 ...

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 died in the ...

Gulag guards, administrators, even senior officers of the secret police, could also be arrested and find themselves sentenced to camps. Not every "poisonous weed" remained poisonous, in other ...

Translated by Ehsan Sanaeil Ardakani, the book has been published by Nashre Markaz publishing house in 718 pages, Mehr reported. “The Gulag Archipelago” is a three-volume series written between 1958 ...

MOSCOW — Russia has made a once-banned book recounting the brutality and despair of the Soviet Gulag required reading in the country’s schools, the Education Ministry said in a statement today. The ...

Dmitry Vyatkin, a State Duma deputy and member of the conservative United Russia party, said that literary works that “have not stood the test of time and do not correspond to reality,” like Alexander ...

[amazon 1933002409 full]After the death of Josef Stalin, and as the prison camps of the gulag were emptying out, Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsy, a leading clergyman in Russia, preached a famous ...