Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

...takes Putin to task Vladimir Putin received a rare public rebuff from the widow of Alexander Solzhenitsyn for using the term "propaganda" in discussing the author's account of Soviet Gulag life, The Gulag Archipelago. The Prime Minister, a...

In this article: Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Putin, Liberalism, and Russia

...to literature. Mikhalkov, who was also a noted playwright, was a chairman of the Soviet Writers' Union, and took part in smear campaigns against other authors, including Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Both his sons are...

In this article: Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Alexandrov, Josef Stalin, Soviet Union, Russia, Communism, and Oscar

A champion of freedom and justice: Putin leads the tributes to Solzhenitsyn - Europe, World - The Independent A champion of freedom and justice: Putin leads the tributes to Solzhenitsyn By Dmitry Babich in Moscow and Anne Penketh

In this article: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, Boris Yeltsin, and Russia

...Yeltsin because of his disgust with post-Soviet society. Solzhenitsyn gradually warmed to Yeltsin's successor Vladimir Putin, despite his background as a former KGB officer. Some Western critics began to accuse the writer of becoming an...

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...exalted in Russia | csmonitor.com Solzhenitsyn: In June 2007, Vladimir Putin (r.), who gave Alexander Solzhenitsyn a humanitarian award, visited the writer at his home on the outskirts of Moscow. Solzhenitsyn: exiled then exalted in...

In this article: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Communism, The First Circle, and Boris Yeltsin

...him in a televised portion of the meeting for "all your work for the good of Russia." Solzhenitsyn, sitting in a wheelchair, thanked Putin for coming. In a taped message, Solzhenitsyn said Russia's rough experience during the "cruel and...

In this article: Vladimir Putin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia, Boris Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Moscow, and United States

...as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of modern times. Despite this, Solzhenitsyn seemed to accept Putin as a "good dictator," whose silencing of his critics enhances Russia's soul. It is a sad testament to Russia's current mind set that...

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...later the mores of the West. He returned to Russia and deplored what he considered its spiritual decline, but in the last years of his life he embraced President Vladimir Putin as a restorer of Russia's greatness. In almost half a century,...

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...moral values. In June last year, then Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Solzhenitsyn with the State Prize, Russia's highest honour, praising his devotion to the "fatherland" in a lavish ceremony at the Kremlin. Solzhenitsyn's...

In this article: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Soviet Union, Russia, Nobel Prize for literature, Heart failure, The First Circle, and Vladimir Putin