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Hero of a dark century.(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn )
WITH the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the world has lost one of the great souls of this or any age. His story was beyond improbable: A former prisoner or "zek" in the vast system of Soviet prisons and labor camps who had also miraculously survived a bout with abdominal cancer, an "underground writer" who never expected a single word of his to be published in his own lifetime, Solzhenitsyn was catapulted to world fame with the November 1962 publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Nikita Khrushchev, the most "humane" of Soviet leaders, mistook Solzhenitsyn for a Soviet loyalist whose movingly understated account of a single day in the life of a ...
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Empire-Slayer.(The Gulag Archipelago)
- Magazine article from: National Review Mahoney, Daniel J. December 19, 2005 700+ words
...SOLZHENITSYN's massive Gulag Archipelago was published in English...an "authoritarian" Russia. As the late Martin...nature in extremis. The Gulag Archipelago established beyond any...his words) "purging Russia of all sorts of harmful...
- The Russian Orthodox Church marked the 70th anniversary of the bloody peak of...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century September 4, 2007 700+ words
...Solzhenitsyn's world-famous book, The Gulag Archipelago. The procession ended on the edge of...the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Patriarch Aleksy II of the Russian...has referred repeatedly to the site as Russia's Golgotha. From August 1937 to October...
- Turning a page on Solzhenitsyn's gulag. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn; excerpted...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report May 1, 1989 700+ words
...for the first time in 27 years. Last week, the editor of Novy Mir revealed that his monthly will publish excerpts of The Gulag Archipelago later this year. That could pave the way for printings of his books and even a return home.
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956. (Bookshelf).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Albright, Madeleine K. April 1, 2003 700+ words
BY ALEKSANDR I. SOLZHENITSYN I spent most of my academic life studying the Soviet Union, and we all knew what terrible things took place in the labor camps. But until Solzhenitsyn's memoir, we had no firsthand account of the atrocities. His story encompasses so many aspects of the insidious system,
- Solzhenitzyn's good reasons for reluctance to go home. (author Aleksandr...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Beichman, Arnold March 8, 1993 700+ words
...Solzhenitsyn's return to Russia. The first thing Yeltsin...Yet the author of The Gulag Archipelago doesn't move. The...that he would return to Russia only when his books, especially The Gulag Archipelago, were published in full...
- Russia's Required Reading Recognizes Reality under Stalin
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday LYNN NEARY September 13, 2009 700+ words
...Sunday 09-13-2009 Russia's Required Reading...news item out of Russia caught our eye last...masterwork "The Gulag Archipelago." This was the...read from "The Gulag Archipelago" mean that Russia is once again ready...
- Russia puts its prophet in his place
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Andrew Higgins in Moscow April 16, 1995 700+ words
...to the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament...secret proofs of The Gulag Archipelago but was later accused...authorities in power in Russia, his voice reminded...journal that published The Gulag Archipelago in 1989, is now preparing...
- Vasily Aksyonov, 76, representative writer of Russia's 1960s idealists Obituary
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune Sophia Kishkovsky The New York Times July 9, 2009 700+ words
...representative writer of Russia's 1960s idealists...years in Moscow. In Russia he was revered both...Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago." He was born in...ranks with "The Gulag Archipelago" as one of the most...tragicomic deconstruction of Russia's split personality...
