Why was aleksandr solzhenitsyn imprisoned
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Soviet-Russian author and dissident (1918–2008)
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. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]
Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, he initially lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then interna
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Profiles In Faith
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
Russian Author & Nobel Laureate
A World Split Wider Apart:
Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Speech Twenty-four Years Later
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born December 11, 1918, in Kislovodsk in the mountainous region of southern Russia known as the Caucasus. His father Isaaki was a philosophy student at Moscow University but abandoned his studies to fight against Germany in WW I. He became an artillery officer and remained on the front until the Treaty of Brest. Tragically, it was a hunting accident which ended his life—six months before Aleksandr’s birth.
Aleksandr‘s mother, Tassia, never remarried and reared her son on her own despite economic hardships. An educated woman, Tassia was fluent in French and English, and earned a living as a stenographer and typist.
In 1924, the two moved to the town of Rostov on the Don where Aleksandr completed grammar school. Wanting to be a writer
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Exiled writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reunited with family
On March 29, 1974, prominent Soviet author, historian and political dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is reunited with his family after being exiled from his home country. Publication of The Gulag Archipelago, his detailed history of the Soviet Union's vast system of prisons and labor camps, helped raise global awareness of the communist nation's rampant political repression. Its publication led Soviet authorities to arrest him for treason, strip him of his citizenship and physically expel him from the U.S.S.R. in February 1974.
One of the country's most visible and vocal dissidents, Solzhenitsyn had served an eight-year prison term after WWII for making critical remarks about Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a letter, followed by permanent internal exile. He came to prominence as a dissident author during a post-Stalin "thaw" with his 1962 short novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which details the daily routine of life in a Siberian labor camp, drawn from his personal experience. Subsequent novels Cancer W
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