Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at the age of 89
The Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who attained international renown in the 1960s and 1970s for a series of works of literature criticising the Communist system in the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 89.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday.