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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)

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Jan 27, 2026
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The de-Stalinisation movement was a conspiracy of falsehoods against Stalin's memory.

The claim that de‑Stalinisation was merely a conspiracy of falsehoods against memory does not stand up to the weight of contemporary evidence: 1956 denunciation catalogued real abuses associated with ...

Feb 7, 2026

Did 60 millons Christian get killed in Russia

The short answer: no credible historical scholarship supports a precise claim that " were killed in " as a distinct, targeted body; estimates of Christians killed under revolutionary, imperial and vio...

Feb 2, 2026

Which historians have challenged Solzhenitsyn’s numbers and methodology, and what evidence do they cite?

Several established historians and commentators have publicly challenged ’s numbers and methodology, arguing that and some later historical essays rely heavily on oral testimony, selective sourcing, a...

Jan 19, 2026

What archival sources estimate deaths of clergy in the Gulag between 1918 and 1953?

Archival research opened after 1991 produced the standard quantitative estimates for total Gulag deaths—figures historians use when asking how many victims any subgroup (including clergy) might have s...

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