
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn waves to well-wishers in the main square in Vladivostok after he returned to Russia following 20 years of exile, on May 27, 1994. Michael Evstafiev/AFP via Getty Images
Commentary
In February 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the KGB, stripped of his citizenship, and expelled from the Soviet Union. On the eve of his arrest, he circulated a short essay among Moscow’s intellectuals titled “Live Not by Lies.”


