MOSCOW (AP) - “The Gulag Archipelago” is essential reading for Russian students, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday _ unusual words of praise from a former KGB agent for Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...

Translated by Ehsan Sanaeil Ardakani, the book has been published by Nashre Markaz publishing house in 718 pages, Mehr reported. “The Gulag Archipelago” is a three-volume series written between 1958 ...

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 Gulag Archipelago, once banned because of its portrayal of Soviet dissidents serving time in prison camps, is now required reading in Russian high schools. Parts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 ...

Today would have been Nobel Prize-laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 90th birthday. Even before the end of Nikita Khrushchev's thaw, Solzhenitsyn had become a banned writer and his works began a long ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...

28 December 1973: Perhaps the most politically dangerous of all his books is to be published in Paris today in a Russian edition A new work by Solzhenitsyn, perhaps the most politically dangerous of ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's widow has abridged his watershed book, "The Gulag Archipelago", for students in Russia in the latest move to rehabilitate the Soviet-era dissident, newspapers said Friday.