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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer and prominent Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
Biography. Winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 in Kislovodsk, Russia. He studied mathematics at Rostov University, while at the same time taking correspondence courses from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History.
Apr 9, 2024 · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Born: Dec. 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia. Died: Aug. 3, 2008, Troitse-Lykovo, near Moscow (aged 89) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize. Templeton Prize (1983) Notable Works: “August 1914” “Cancer Ward” “In the First Circle” “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” “The Gulag Archipelago” “The Mortal Danger” “The Red Wheel”
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- In the First Circle. A novel about the bonds of friendship, complicity and conscience, set in a prison for scientists and engineers.
- Cancer Ward. A novella set among cancer patients and their doctors, under normal circumstances and at the eleventh hour of illness.
- The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn’s indictment of the Soviet prison and labor camp system, his moral duty to the millions who perished there.
- The Red Wheel. Solzhenitsyn’s historical epic on the 1917 Russian Revolution, his “chief artistic design” and major life work. - Node I: August 1914. -Node II: October 1916.
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation ( Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, romanized : Arkhipelag GULAG) is a three-volume non-fiction series written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident.
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Nov 2, 2022 · The Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center supports explorations into the life and writings of the Nobel Laureate and Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Aug 4, 2008 · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most...
