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 ...

(The top right image comes courtesy of Edward Ericson, Jr. and should not be distributed without his prior consent.) The literary works of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918–August 3, ...

It was a grim pleasure to re-read portions of "One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich" in preparation for Tuesday's editorial tribute to the Russian novelist, historian, memoirist and social critic, ...

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 ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author who chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, died on Sunday. He was 89.

Interview With Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Russia’s turbulent history, Putin’s version of democracy and his attitude to life and ...