(Left to right) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Natalia Solzhenitsyn (his wife), Billy Collins and Robert Knittel (a Collins editor) outside the William Collins and Sons offices.
1973
William Collins and Sons secures the rights to Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, an eye-opening work that exposes in startling detail the horrors of the Communist regime in Russia.