* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

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In 1973 and 1974 the Soviet media campaign targeted both Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In his book, The Gulag Archipelago, Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described cases of cannibalism in 20th-century USSR.

* 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2008 )

* 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

During the Nobel ceremony in December 1974, Hayek met the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, introduced the term to the Western world with the 1973 publication of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.

A wide range of death tolls has been suggested, from as many as 60 million suggested by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to as few as 700, 000 by Soviet news sources.

Anti-Stalinist figures such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were allowed the freedom to criticize Stalin.

* Cancer Ward ( 1967 ) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government.

Some analysts like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Mortal Danger: Misconceptions about Soviet Russia and the Threat to America consider the use of the term " Stalinism " is an excuse to hide the inevitable effects of communism as a whole on human liberties.

* December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2008 )

** Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was also imprisoned in a sharashka, and based his novel The First Circle on his experiences there.

Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov.

In his controversial historical work Two Hundred Years Together, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn claimed that Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast, invented the gas van in the Soviet Union in 1937.

; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: for an outstanding contribution into the development of Russian literature, Russian language and Russian history.

The Gulag Archipelago () is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labour camp system.

* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: " Saving the Nation Is the Utmost Priority for the State " Moscow News ( 2006-05-02 )

Category: Novels by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Some writers dared to oppose Soviet ideology, like short story writer Varlam Shalamov and Nobel Prize winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in the gulag camps, or Vasily Grossman, with his description of World War II events countering the Soviet official historiography.

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In 1970, Rostropovich sheltered Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who otherwise would have had nowhere to go, in his own home.

* Kaddish – long poem / song by Aleksandr Galich ( 1970 )

| 1977 Shura || 1970 QY || Aleksandr Kosmodemyanskii, Soviet war hero

Aleksandr Pavlovich Rodzyanko (, ), ( 18 August 1879 — 6 May 1970 ) was a lieutenant-general and a corps commander of the White Army during the Russian Civil War.

The 1970 prize was awarded to Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who did not attend the ceremony in Stockholm for fear that the Soviet Union would prevent his return.

Solzhenitsyn had been completely unknown in the West until Cancer Ward was published, and he won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, primarily for this work, although he was banned by the Soviet government from receiving it until 1974.