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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author who exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps, was buried Wednesday in a Russian Orthodox ceremony that included goose-stepping guards and the dirges of a religious choir.
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There are many reasons for me to remember Mr. Solzhenitsyn. Long time back, while rummaging book shelves in a library, in Kolkata, I was a lucky chap to get “One Day...
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps, was buried Wednesday in a Russian Orthodox ceremony...
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Hundreds of Russians lined up in the pelting rain on Tuesday to pay tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the author, dissident and patriot lay in state inside the...
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Excerpts from the two best-known novels of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at age 89:
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