Alexandre Soljenitsyne

English summary: Alexander Solzhenitsyn's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in literature remains a capital text, in which the author condemned both communism and capitalism. Prophetic in its understanding of the two systems, Solzhenitsyn's text, written four years after his expulsion from the USSR, retains even …

Prussian Nights is a long poem by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a captain in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Prussian Nights describes the Red Army's march across East Prussia, and focuses on the traumatic acts of rape and murder that Solzhenitsyn witnessed as a participant in that march. Originally it was …