MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. Stepan ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn's latest book, Russia in Collapse, is given an initial print run of only 5,000, a measure of how little he interests his fellow countrymen; Solzhenitsyn has had ample ...

MOSCOW, June 20 -- He calls it "walking on the edge of a razor" and he should know. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has been sliced before. Solzhenitsyn, the 82-year-old literary giant who told the world about ...

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 ...

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle The masters of ...

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 ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful works ...