2008/08/05

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Passes 2008 August 3

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn died on August 3, 2008. He was Nobel Prize-winning author of novels and nonfiction and an opponent of Soviet oppression. Though he opposed the Stalinist government, he was a reformer in the Russian mold and not an advocate of the Western-style democracy or capitalism. Articles and obituaries are linked below.

Nobel Prize-Winning Russian Author Dies
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies