Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

concert stage with musicians

Russian artists grapple with the same dilemma as their Soviet forebears — to stay or to go?

Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures? It’s a struggle familiar from Soviet times.

Author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

In audio: the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago,’ dies at 89

Global Politics
The World

Vermont neighbor reflects on Solzhenitsyn

Conflict & Justice
The World

Russia’s penal system after Solzhenitsyn

Conflict & Justice

The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at the state of Russia’s justice and prison system, in the wake of the death of dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.