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 ...

Like many who lived in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, I have a personal relationship with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom I never met. It is one of boundless admiration. As a college student in Moscow, I ...

COMMENTARY: On Oct. 8, 1970, the Russian writer who exposed communism’s hatred for God was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This portrait of Russian author and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...

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 ...

A decade after the hugely influential author’s death, some young Russians admit to only a passing knowledge of Russian dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who won a Nobel Prize for chronicling ...

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 ...

On the death of the great Russian writer. Solzhenitsyn knew the macabre, arbitrary workings of totalitarianism from the inside. In the winter of 1945, when he was fighting with the Soviet army on the ...

Short stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? Many readers might be required to recalibrate their sense of the man before sitting down to Apricot Jam and Other Stories (Counterpoint, 352 pages), a ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Image: Ricardo B. Brazziell /Austin American-Statesman via AP Photo: Image: Ricardo B.

What The Gulag Archipelago still teaches, 50 years later. A review of March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Marian Schwartz. A vivid depiction of ...