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  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn ,
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( , ) (December 11, 1918 – August 3, 2008) was a Russian novel, drama and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's labour camp system, and for these efforts, Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He returned to Russia in 1994. He was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. He died at home after years of declining health on... full article at wikipedia
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  • Aug 3, 2008
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