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August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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
1399 words, approx. 4.7 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 Koslov...
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Biography of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5169 words, approx. 17.2 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 his...


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August 1914 Information
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August 1914 is a novel by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about Imperial Russia's defeat the battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia (1914), an episode at arms known in Russian history as the Battle of the Masurian Lakes. According to Sozhenitsyn's...


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In the shadow of August 1914.(history and the war on terrorism)
12/10/2001: 1,716 words, approx. 6 pages
With each passing day, the political landscape across the globe looks increasingly like August 1914. Then, it took only the assassination of an Austrian archduke by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist to ignite the First World War. The second decade of the century was a...
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History: Review of New Books
Leon Trotsky and World War I: August 1914-February 1917.(Review) (book review)
09/22/2000: 497 words, approx. 2 pages
Thatcher, Ian D. Leon Trotsky and World War I: August 1914-February 1917 New York: St. Martin's Press 262 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-312-23487-2 Publication Date: August 2000 Ian D. Thatcher, of the University of Leicester, analyzes Leon Trotsky's wartime journalism in this slim volume....
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U.S.-Iran tensions could trigger war
2/1/2007: 1,237 words, approx. 4 pages
Citing Iranian involvement with Iraqi militias and Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the Bush administration has shifted to offense in its confrontation with Iran _ building up the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf and promising more aggressive moves against Iranian operatives in Iraq and Lebanon.The behind-the-scenes...
 


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August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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