Can there be a duty to read a work of literature? Most people I’ve met who are at least aware of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago know that they should read the book. They ...

Tens of millions were swept up in the gulag, shipped off to exile, forced labor, and often death. The victims included ethnic minorities and the intelligentsia, but also, less well known, the ...

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 of ...

MOSCOW -- The book that made "Gulag" a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist ...

Excerpt from the introduction to the newly-abridged Russian version of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Sanya, as the boy was called at home, read a great deal and, strange to say, at ...

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