Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Geboren: December 11, 1918 – Kislovodsk, Stavropol Krai, Russia
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose work examined Soviet repression, imprisonment, and moral endurance. Best known for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, he won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, and his writings helped reveal the Soviet camp system worldwide.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 in Kislovodsk and grew up largely in Rostov-on-Don, in the unsettled aftermath of the Russian Revolution and civil war. Trained first in mathematics and physics at Rostov State University, he also pursued literature through correspondence study, an early sign of the double life he would long maintain: outwardly a disciplined Soviet citizen, inwardly a writer of moral and historical ambition. The decisive turn came during the Second World War. Serving as a Red Army artillery officer, he was arrested in 1945 after private letters criticized Joseph Stalin. He spent eight years in prisons and labor camps, followed by internal exile in Kazakhstan.
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"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was honored for the ethical force with which he pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"
— Nobel Prize
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s denunciation of the Soviet labour camp system achieves monumental proportions"
— The Guardian
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a towering figure in Soviet Russia whose works revealed Stalin’s labour-camp network"
— The Independent
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s narrative is reminiscent at times of Tolstoy’s artistic force"
— Pravda
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s chronicles of Soviet tyranny made him a symbol of freedom and the durability of the human spirit"
— The Washington Post
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the author of works without which the history of the 20th century is unthinkable"
— Yury Osipov
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s words speak to us of the individual’s indestructible dignity"
— Swedish Academy
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of Communist repression"
— Los Angeles Times
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was one of the first who spoke aloud about the inhuman Stalinist regime"
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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