The writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had a global impact. William Brumfield, a professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University, looks at how the words of one man changed minds both in Russia and abroad.

The publisher of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial works since 1973, Nikita Struve, spoke to RT about the birth of The Gulag Archipelago, the book that led to the writer's exile.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has been buried at Donskoy monastery in Moscow today. Olesya Nikolayeva, a poet and a professor from the Literature Institute in Moscow, says his life and works followed the Russian metaphysical tradition.