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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has 443 books on Goodreads with 575536 ratings. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most popular book is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Aleksandr Isayevich [a] Solzhenitsyn (/ˌsoʊlʒəˈniːtsɪn, ˌsɔːl-/; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer.
Large Works & Novels. A novel about the bonds of friendship, complicity and conscience, set in a prison for scientists and engineers. A novella set among cancer patients and their doctors, under normal circumstances and at the eleventh hour of illness. Solzhenitsyn’s indictment of the Soviet prison and labor camp system, his moral duty to the ...
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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has 439 books on Goodreads with 574275 ratings. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most popular series is Архипелаг Гулаг.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has 48 books on Goodreads with 4829 ratings. Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s most popular book is Cancer Ward.
Jan 30, 1997 · The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953.
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Aug 7, 2007 · The author of this book, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was a commander in the Red Army and saw action on the front lines against the Nazi’s in 1944. Despite his heroism, he was arrested in 1945 for writing negatively about Joseph Stalin to a friend in a private letter.
Books by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a leading figure of 20th-century Russian literature, winning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for writing about the Soviet gulags, where he had been imprisoned for criticizing Stalin.
