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Solzhenitsyn

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Sol·zhe·ni·tsyn  (slzh-ntsn, sl-zh-nytsn), Aleksandr Isayevich 1918-2008.
Soviet writer and dissident whose works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), exposed the brutality of the Soviet labor camp system. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970.

Solzhenitsyn [ˌsɒlʒəˈnɪtsɪn (Russian) səlʒəˈnitsin]
n
(Biographies / Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isayevich (1918 M, Russian, WRITING: novelist) Alexander Isayevich (alɪkˈsandr iˈsajɪvitʃ). born 1918, Russian novelist. His books include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), The First Circle (1968), Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), The Gulag Archipelago (1974), and October 1916 (1985). His works criticize the Soviet regime and he was imprisoned (1945-53) and exiled to Siberia (1953-56). He was deported to the West from the Soviet Union in 1974; all charges against him were dropped in 1991 and he returned to Russia in 1994. Nobel prize for literature 1970

Sol•zhe•ni•tsyn (ˌsoʊl ʒəˈnit sɪn, ˌsɔl-)

n.
Aleksandr (Isayevich), born 1918, Russian novelist, in the U.S. 1974–94: Nobel prize 1970.
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Noun1.Solzhenitsyn - Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)


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95 Paperback DK274 First published in 1980, this volume reproduces three major addresses by famed Russian dissident and writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) that were delivered in the United States in the mid-1970s.
The vast array of Soviet camps, of which Solzhenitsyn himself had been an inmate, had been known about for decades, but for Soviet readers this was one of the first public acknowledgements of their existence.
Convicted in 1945 of criticizing Joseph Stalin's regime, Solzhenitsyn spent years in a Soviet prison camp, nearly succumbing to disease and other hardships.
 
 
 
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