Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(1918-2008)
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 11 December 1918 Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
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3 August 2008 (aged 89) Moscow, Russia
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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