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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is is an account of the Soviet prison system, based on extensive research and Solzhenitsyn's own experiences as a prisoner in the Gulag. It is composed of 7 sections, and often divided...


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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
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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
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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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The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ) is a work based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is a massive narrative written based on eyewitness testimony and primary research...


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The Nation
Archipelago Gulag.(Review)
06/14/1999: 2,653 words, approx. 9 pages
The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir. By Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Translated by Willem Samuels. Hyperion East. 375 pp. $27.50. Just eleven months after Suharto was forced to step down from his thirty-two-year "presidency," Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's foremost novelist, was in New York...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Empire-Slayer.(The Gulag Archipelago)
12/19/2005: 1,107 words, approx. 4 pages
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Empire-Slayer SOLZHENITSYN's massive Gulag Archipelago was published in English in three volumes between 1974 and 1978. It is one the indispensable books of the last fifty years not least because it undermined the moral and political legitimacy of the...
 


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