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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's works used to be typed up and passed around in secret. Now they are just a few mouse-clicks away.
The southern Vermont town of Cavendish is planning a memorial service for famed Russian writer and one-time resident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
At a time when government reports ask whether Americans care about reading anymore, the legacy of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn reminds us that books can matter as much as life and death.
When Alexander Solzhenitsyn sought refuge in the West, he looked for a place whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland, and where residents had an ethic of respecting one another's privacy. The southern Vermont town of Cavendish was just the spot.
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps, was buried Wednesday in a cemetery filled with evocations of Communist cruelty and the fight against it that defined his life.
When Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" appeared in the thick monthly literary magazine Novy Mir back in November of 1962, taboos were shattered. Buried secrets were unearthed. And the Soviet Union was shaken to its foundations.
Excerpts from the two best-known novels of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at age 89:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed and chronicled the vast network of Stalin's slave labor camps, lived "a difficult but happy life," his family said.
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 finally coming out in English.
Nobel laureate and former Soviet dissident Aleksander Solzhenitsyn accused the United States and NATO of seeking to encircle Russia, and praised President Vladimir Putin for working to restore a strong state.
Fact check: McCain's and Solzhenitsyn's stories--Cross in Sand Fact check concludes, it is possible both McCain's and Solzhenitsyn's stories could be true. You decide.
Update 8-22: Cross in the SandBilly Graham attributed the story to Solzhenitsyn in 1975.
The Evidence That McCain Stole Solzhenitsyn's Story - The Jed ReportAs for the story itself, the details of McCain's version of Solzhenitsyn's "Cross in the Dirt" story don't add up. Specifically:
The death of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn this past week brought an outpouring of commentary and tributes that continue to this day. Applause by so many who were largely focused on Solzhenitsyn's life and politics.
Solzhenitsyn Was a Russian PatriotHe remained staunchly anticommunist, noting in the July 2007 interview in Der Spiegel that the October Revolution "broke Russia's back.
The Legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Nation He received tens of thousands of appreciative letter from Americans for whom the speech resonated, but I think it's fair to say that he was criticized roundly by intellectuals, particularly on the left.
Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89This is why the Times is the Times.. This obit on Solzhenitsyn is a typical Times opus -- a colossal eight-page essay... Yeah, I'm a week late on this, but it's still worth noting.
Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov on democracy, free speech & Alexander Solzhenitsyn Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov on Solzhenitsyn, the author of the Gulag Archipelago, who related the terrible truth about Soviet totalitarianism and the Soviet Gulag and pleaded for "abandonment of all forms of censorship".
Solzhenitsyn in Search of the Russia That Always Eluded Him In May 1974, three months after his dramatic expulsion from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn entered on a search for a place to live in North America.
Solzhenitsyn in his own words People in the West have acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting and manipulating law, even though laws tend to be too complicated for an average person to understand without the help of an expert...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the man who exposed Stalin's brutality, dies aged 89 Solzhenitsyn shot to prominence for his unflinching depictions of the brutality of Stalin's network of Soviet gulag deathcamps, in which more than 20 million people died.
Putin leads tributes to Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Vladimir Putin led tributes to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn today, calling the writer's death a "heavy loss for the whole of Russia".
I remember reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in a second-hand bookstore. I didn't have much money at the time, but I bought it anyway. The book would change my life forever.
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89MOSCOW (AP) -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died at 89, Russian media say.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn diagnoses mortal decay of the West28 years ago at Harvard, Alexander Solzhenitsyn uttered an uncanny analysis of the current moral gangrene of Western Civilization. Wretchard at Belmont Club has republished this terrible warning, for it is even more true today.
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