Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday of heart failure at age 89, was a titan in Russian literature and politics of the 20th century. He survived the Stalinist purges, World War II, eight years in ...

CAVENDISH — The town of Cavendish will have an opportunity to honor the legacy of a former resident and renowned literary writer on Town Meeting Day. The town will decide whether to acquire the ...

On the death of the great Russian writer. Solzhenitsyn knew the macabre, arbitrary workings of totalitarianism from the inside. In the winter of 1945, when he was fighting with the Soviet army on the ...

Like many who lived in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, I have a personal relationship with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom I never met. It is one of boundless admiration. As a college student in Moscow, I ...

Shortly after taking voluntary exile from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn settled on a 51-acre, fenced and wooded hillside estate in Cavendish, instantly becoming Vermont's best-known recluse ...

(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, ...

“The function of ideology is to stabilize and perpetuate dominance through masking or illusion,” is a definition Alexander Solzhenitsyn probably would have agreed with, although he might have ...

Natalya Reshetovskaya, an author and the first wife of Nobel literature laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has died at age 84. Ms. Reshetovskaya died in her sleep May 28, the newspaper Izvestia reported ...

I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study ...