Aug 5th, 2008 · On August 3, Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure at age 89. Solzhenitsyn exposed the atrocities committed by the Soviet Gulag in his work, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Fresh Air remembers the Nobel Prize winner.
Keywords: winners · Russia · Nobel Prize · curtain · atrocities · emOne · Soviet Gulag · Solzhenitsyn · Alexander Solzhenitsyn · Life of Ivan Denisovich
Jul 13th, 2008 · In Russia, the prison population is on the rise and so, too, are allegations of extreme abuse. Human rights groups and former prisoners say treatment of inmates is so bad that it's comparable to the Soviet Gulag.
Keywords: inmates · populations · Prisons · human · Russia · extreme · Torture · compares · Soviet Gulag
