“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent ...

In Invisible Allies, his tribute to those Russians who, at considerable risk to themselves, helped to further his work while he was under constant surveillance by the KGB, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...

The Russian author’s Nobel Prize lecture contains an urgent message for contemporary audiences. Get our guide to the day’s biggest news and ideas, delivered to your inbox every weekday and Sunday ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1997, soon after being elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences, he was invited to participate in a roundtable ...

What strikes Holmquist most is that Solzhenitsyn had every right to be a “victim.” His regular persecution gave him a much bigger claim to victimhood than any “victim” of modern. He had years in ...

Exiled Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn signs books in the Norwich University library during a visit to campus in Northfield, Vermont, in 1975; includes head librarian Ann Turner and student ...

The following letter by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was written on May 3, 1982, from Solzhenitsyn’s home in Cavendish, Vt., and addressed to President Ronald Reagan. Solzhenitsyn explains his reasons ...

A review of March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Marian Schwartz. A vivid depiction of Emperor Nikolai II after his abdication, from a new English ...