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Mar 16, 2005 russian nobel prizewinner aleksandr solzhenitsyn 19182008 is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figuresand perhaps the most important writerof the last century. The story of laborcamp inmate ivan denisovich shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 660 pages and is available in mass market paperback format. Due to this, he won the nobel prize in literature in 1970, but also was exiled from the soviet union in 1974. Aleksandr solzhenitsyn 200 years together russojewish history. Pdf it is apparent from the title of his novel the first circle and from various details there and in other works that alexander solzhenitsyn is. On 12 february 1974, solzhenitsyn was arrested and deported the next day from the soviet union to frankfurt, west germany and stripped of his soviet citizenship. While i sat beside my unconscious mother, i read aleksandr solzhenitsyns the gulag archipelago, a mammoth nobel prizewinning book written by a russian dissident who suffered at the hands of a brutal communist regime.
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