Acclaimed Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote extensively about the gulag prison system and won the Nobel literature prize for his books on abuses in the Soviet Union, died Sunday at age ...

The truth that Alexander Solzhenitsyn told helped to make Russia free. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, acknowledged a day after Solzhenitsyn's death at age 89 that the Nobel Prize-winning ...

In the spring of 1962, rumors started swirling in Prague that "Novy mir," the Soviet literary journal edited by Aleksandr Tvarkovsky, would publish a work by an unknown author that would bare the ...

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When I was stationed in Germany years ago, some of my fellow soldiers would get bored and pick fights with young Russian men in the local clubs. The German locals never seemed to have the heart to ...

She is the granddaughter of one of Russia's most admired writers, daughter of socialists imprisoned during the Bolshevik Revolution, a writer and painter now living in San Francisco. He is one of the ...

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