Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Russia, in 1918, shortly after the revolution, and studied mathematics and physics at Rostov University. He served as an artillery officer in the Red Army during the Second World War, but in 1945 he was arrested for criticizing Stalin in private letters and sentenced to eight years in labor camps, followed by internal exile in Kazakhstan, where he also survived cancer. His short novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, about a single day in a camp, was published in the Soviet Union in 1962 with Khrushchev's approval and caused a sensation. Later works such as Cancer Ward and The First Circle could not be published at home. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. After The Gulag Archipelago appeared in the West, he was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He lived for many years in Vermont, returned to Russia in 1994, and died in Moscow in 2008.

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Faith: Favoured a government that would draw on Russia's traditional Christian values. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica