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Biography

Name: Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Birth Date: December 11, 1918
Place of Birth: Caucasus, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
1,399 words, approx. 5 pages
Although his works were banned in the Soviet Union, the Russian novelist Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (born 1918) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, descended from a family of Cossack intellectuals, was born in...
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Biography of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5,169 words, approx. 17 pages
The epitome of a socially involved writer, one-time dissident Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, became a symbol of Soviet intolerance during the cold war, being forced to leave his native Russia because of...


Quotations
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын] (born 11 December 1918 ) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was exiled from the Soviet Union...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Information
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaʲɘvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn] ; born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Through a Glass, Darkly: Exorcising the Pentagon
5/21/2006: 1,555 words, approx. 5 pages
James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in penance for the sins of America’s military-industrial complex. House of War is not about...
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The New York Observer
Through a Glass, Darkly: Exorcising the Pentagon
5/21/2006: 1,552 words, approx. 5 pages
James Carroll claims to have left the priesthood in the early 1970’s. House of War suggests otherwise. This history of the Pentagon is Mr. Carroll’s Stations of the Cross, performed in penance for the sins of America’s military-industrial complex. House of War is not...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Gleb Zekulin
8,662 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Zekulin evaluates several of Solzhenitsyn's stories that deal with the fate of the Russian peasantry and intelligentsia in the Soviet era, arguing that these works derive from a vital nineteenth-century tradition of critical realism in Russian literature.
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Critical Essay by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
8,619 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following excerpt, Ericson studies the developing themes in Solzhenitsyn's early prose poems and stories and examines the novella Lenin in Zurich as a political work intended to demythologize the Russian leader.
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Critical Essay by Christopher Moody
8,330 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following excerpt, Moody analyzes One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, comparing it with "Matryona's Home. " He concludes that the works "together . . . provide a picture of goodness and truth at the mercy of evil and falsehood."
 


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