* 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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The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

# " Solzhenitsyn on the Jews and Tsarist Russia ", by F. Roger Devlin, review of A. Solzhenitsyn, " Deux siècles ensemble ", Volume I, in The Occidental Quarterly, Vol.

His publishing debut was " Solzhenitsyn Essay " in 1993.

Though the speech was not published in the USSR for a long time, it was a break with the most atrocious practices of the Gulag system ; Solzhenitsyn was aware, however, that the outlines of the system had survived and could be revived and expanded by future leaders.

Despite the efforts by Solzhenitsyn and others to confront the legacy of the Gulag, the realities of the camps remained taboo into the 1980s.

One chapter of the third volume of the book is written by a prisoner named Georg Tenno, whose exploits enraptured Solzhenitsyn to the extent that he offered Tenno a position as co-author of the book ; Tenno declined.

Solzhenitsyn had been in touch with them about the upcoming publication, which he knew he could not put off much longer, but the final decision was taken by the YMCA Press itself with the author's implicit approval ( two years previously, it had published August 1914 ).

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gorky's return to the Soviet Union was motivated by material needs.

In the 20th century, suffering as a mechanism of evil was explored by authors such as Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago.

In the 1970s, the KGB, led by Yuri Andropov, continued to persecute distinguished Soviet personalities such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, who were criticising the Soviet leadership in harsh terms.

* The First Circle, a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Marshal Tukhachevsky appears as a character in the anthology Apricot Jam and Other Stories, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The official reason given for punishing Taimanov was that he had brought a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn into the country, but that explanation was secondary in nature.

Among others, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named, but he refused to join and in his talk with Andrei Sakharov he motivated this decision by his opinion that it was not right to restrict the scope of the project to the Stalin era only, since the repressive era in Russia started as early as 1917.

* Vladislav Krasnov Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky A study in the Polyphonic Novel by Vladislav Krasnov University of Georgia Press ISBN 0-8203-0472-7

Many at the time ( including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Lev Lebedinsky ) criticised the work as too pessimistic ; Wilson argues that on the contrary " through careful ordering of the texts conveys a specific message of protest at the arbitrary power exercised by dictators in sending the innocent to their deaths " ( p. 411 ).

In 2003, he completed, a song-cycle for soprano and orchestra inspired by poems and letters by Prithwindra Mukherjee, Rainer Maria Rilke, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vincent van Gogh.

The program included such events as a showing of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, starring Jason Robards ( from the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ); The Seven Little Foys, starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Foy Jr. and the Osmond Brothers ; Think Pretty, a musical starring Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase and Groucho Marx in " Time for Elizabeth ", a televised adaptation of a play that Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

Although constantly trailed by KGB, he nonetheless managed to smuggle out a large portion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's archive, including the author's membership card for the Writers ' Union and Second World War military citations ; Solzhenitsyn subsequently paid tribute to Odom's role in his memoir " Invisible Allies " ( 1995 ).

The Soviets are also holding two elderly American tourists named Jonathan and Martha Hopper captive, convinced they are secretly CIA spies, and they are constantly tortured by Commissar Alex Solzhenitsyn (" no relation ", played by Alexei Sayle ).