Alexander Solzhenitsyn passes away

Alexander Solzhenitsyn passes away
# 04 August 2008 08:28 (UTC +04:00)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk in 1918. He graduated from physics-mathematics faculty of Rostov University and history and literature faculty of Moscow Institute of Philosophy. He participated in the Great Patriotic War. He was promoted to captain by February 1945. He was sentenced to 8 years in jail and sent to exile, because he criticized Josef Stalin in his letters to his friend. In 1956 he was released and began his creative activity. Solzhenitsyn became popular in the whole union after his work “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” was published with efforts by Alexander Tvardovsk in 1962. His following publications were banned in the Soviet regime. His novel “The Red Wheel” about Russian revolution made the author popular abroad. In 1969 Solzhenitsyn was dismissed from USSR Writers’ Union. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970. Four years later Solzhenitsyn was stripped of his USSR citizenship and migrated to the west. As from 1989 the writer’s works were published in the USSR again. Periodical Novy Mir (“New World”) published his famous “The Gulag Archipelago” in parts. In 1990 the writer was again granted USSR citizenship. His “Rebuilding Russia” was published in 27 million copies.
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