Required reading: Stalin's horrors.

• Position: Russia - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's account of Joseph Stalin's regime - Brief article

The Gulag Archipelago---Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's three-volume account of the horrors he and millions of prisoners endured under Joseph Stalin's regime--was published in the West in 1973 but banned in the Soviet Union until 1984. Solzhenitsyn was exiled for writing the book and spent 10 years in the U.S. Now, 19 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, an abridged version of his book will be required reading in Russian high schools, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's blessing. Human-rights advocates are...