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Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is among the greatest Russian and world writers of the 20th century. His writing retrieved the history of the Soviet state.

This three-volume work describes Solzhenitsyn's arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society.

Authors such as Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Gunter Grass, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Pearl Buck, William Butler Yeats, and Boris Pasternak are recognized.

Rulers, military, and peasants throughout Eastern European history have been known to have used torture against their enemies, prisoners, or fellow citizens.

Selling over 30 million copies in 35 languages, the three-volume work's unrelenting indictment of Communism made it one of the most important books of the 20th century.

As the saying goes, "The pen is mightier than the sword". It seems very few things have the power to offend and liberate like works of literature.

The Soviet government's refusal to acknowledge, or attend to, the famine that swept much of the Soviet Union during the early 1920s led to widespread cannibalism.

Russian cellist Rostropovich was laid to rest in the same cemetery which houses Shostakovich and Prokofiev. He left behind several passionate recordings.

Joseph Stalin, born Joseph Djugashvili, known as "Soso" and "Koba," was General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party from 1922-53 and Premier 1941-53.