NEW YORK — An uncut edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, a highly praised and controversial novel published 40 years ago and heavily edited because of its story of a Soviet prison ...

A complete and uncensored version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle will be published for the first time in English. The fifth novel by the Russian writer who spent eight years in a Soviet ...

From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Liane Hansen. Today on Russian television, viewers will watch a dramatization of a work by legendary former Soviet dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It's ...

An uncut edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle," a highly praised and controversial novel published 40 years ago and heavily edited because of its story of a Soviet prison camp, is ...

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle The masters of ...