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 ...

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 ...

For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of ...

The great British historian Herbert Butterfield cautioned against the temptation to tell a neat story about historical events or discover “an unfolding logic” in them. History, he argued, is ...

CAVENDISH — The town of Cavendish will have an opportunity to honor the legacy of a former resident and renowned literary writer on Town Meeting Day. The town will decide whether to acquire the ...

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 ...

The novel was published in Russian as ‘Odin den’ Ivan Denisovicha’ in 1962. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

Why have hardly any of today’s college graduates heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? Because, broadly speaking, there were two kinds of Solzhenitsyn readers, those who stopped reading him in the 1970s ...

I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study ...