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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918–2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident who survived the Soviet Gulag system and became a towering figure in 20th-century literature. His works, including 'The Gulag Archipelago' and 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,' exposed the brutality of totalitarianism and earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He spent years in exile in the United States before returning to post-Soviet Russia, where he remained a fierce critic of both communism and Western materialism.

Literature

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Gulag Archipelago
Cancer Ward
The First Circle
August 1914
The Oak and the Calf
A World Split Apart (Harvard Commencement Address)
Live Not by Lies (essay)
The Russian Question at the End of the 20th Century
Two Hundred Years Together

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