Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), born in Kislovodsk on 11 December 1918, studied mathematics at the University of Rostov and commanded an artillery unit during the war. Arrested in February 1945 in East Prussia for criticisms of Stalin in his private correspondence, he was sentenced to eight years in a camp, then exiled to Kazakhstan. He published his first narrative in 1962, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He died on 3 August 2008.

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• EssayThe Gulag ArchipelagoАрхипелаг ГУЛАГAleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973Literature