Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Known for: Writer
  • Date of birth: 1918. December 11.
  • Place of birth: Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. Solzhenitsyn ...

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