Remembering the Brutality of the Gulag: The Works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Roses stand at the gravesite of Russian author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Moscow on Aug. 6, 2008. The Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer can help us remember the horrors of socialism, which seem to be being forgotten by many in America today. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images

Commentary

The Cold War came to an end more than a quarter-century ago. When the winds of change started to blow in the eastern bloc, and then the Berlin Wall finally came down, many of us wondered what the future would bring.