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 ...

I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study ...

Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday at his home near Moscow, but declined further comment. Through unflinching accounts of the years he spent in the Soviet gulag, ...

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 ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author who chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, died on Sunday. He was 89.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed and chronicled the vast network of Stalin's slave labor camps, lived "a difficult but happy life," his family ...

This is a story about the power of the written word. in 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the labor camps for criticizing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in letters to a ...

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 President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Alexander Solzhenitsyn, once a leading dissident writer and fierce critic of the Soviet Union, saying his life was associated ...

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 ...