"Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 " from BBC News reports on the passing of the great Russian Nobel winning author near Moscow of apparent heart failure. He is best known for his books The Gulag Archipelago, The First Circle, The Cancer Ward, and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich.
"Russian Literary Giant Solzhenitsyn Dies" from Der Spiegel
RUSSIA AFTER COMMUNISMI never doubted that communism was doomed to collapse, but I was always afraid of how Russia would emerge from that communism and at what price. I know I am coming back to a worn-out, discouraged, shell-shocked, Russia which has changed beyond recognition and is wandering about in search of itself.
from a speech in Vladivostok on his return to Russia from exile in 1994
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