In 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's description of the Soviet labour camps in his book, The Gulag Archipelago caused an international sensation. Through archives and interviews, we take a fascinating ...

Woven into Solzhenitsyn’s account of torture, starvation and hard labor in the gulag—evil that many would take as evidence ...

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 ...

Solzhenitsyn first burst onto the world literary scene in the 1960s as a Soviet dissident whose novels including “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “The Gulag Archipelago ...