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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [a] [b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) [6] [7] was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, romanized: Arkhipelag GULAG) is a three-volume non-fiction series written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident.
Solzhenitsyn first wrote this book with 96 chapters. He felt he could never get this version published in the USSR, so he produced a "lightened" version of 87 chapters. In the long version, the diplomat Volodin's phone call (chapter 1) was to the US embassy, warning them of a Soviet attempt to get atomic bomb secrets.
Part 1, August 1914 narrates the disastrous opening of World War I from a Russian perspective. Solzhenitsyn says he conceived the idea in 1938, then in 1945 gathered notes for Part 1 in the weeks when he led a Red Army unit into the same Eastern Prussia region where much of the novel takes place, but not until early 1969 did he start writing the novel.
Fans of "Jeopardy!" voiced their displeasure with a ruling during a recent episode where all three contestants failed to properly pronounce the name of Soviet dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: An International Bibliography of Writings by and about Him, 1962–1973. Ann Arbor: Ardis. Solzhenitsyn Studies: A Quarterly Review 1–2 (1980–1981). Michael Nicholson (1985). "Solzhenitsyn in 1981: A Bibliographic Reorientation". In John B. Dunlop; Richard S. Haugh; Michael Nicholson (eds.).
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Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 in Kislovodsk following the death of his father. [9] In 1921, his mother moved to Rostov-on-Don [ 10 ] and Solzhenitsyn joined her there in 1926. [ 11 ] He attended school and studied physics and mathematics at Rostov State University. [ 12 ]