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	Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
		Solzhenitsyn was born into a family of Cossack intellectuals and brought up primarily by his mother (his father was killed in an accident before his birth).
		In 1970 Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he declined to go to Stockholm to receive the prize for fear he would not be readmitted to the Soviet Union by the government upon his return.
		Solzhenitsyn produced two books of nonfiction in 1980: The Oak and the Calf, which portrayed literary life in the Soviet Union, and the brief The Mortal Danger, which analyzed what he perceived to be the perils of American misconceptions about Russia.
	www.almaz.com /nobel/literature/Solzhenitsyn.html (1055 words)

	Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn - Encyclopedia.com
		Solzhenitsyn grew up in Rostov-na-Donu, where he studied mathematics at Rostov State Univ. During World War II he served in the Red Army, rising to the rank of artillery captain, and was decorated for bravery.
		Stalin died in 1953 and Solzhenitsyn's citizenship was restored in 1956.
		Solzhenitsyn ultimately settled in the United States, living in rural Vermont, and in 1980 The Oak and the Calf and The Mortal Danger were published.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Solzheni.html (1012 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
		Solzhenitsyn has continued the realistic tradition of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and complemented it with his views of the flaws of both East and West.
		In WW II Solzhenitsyn achieved the rank of captain of artillery and was twice decorated.
		Solzhenitsyn refused to join his colleagues who protested prison sentences imposed on the writers, because he "disapproved of writers who sought fame abroad", but in 1969 he was expelled in absentia from the Writers' Union.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /alesol.htm (2139 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Picture - MSN Encarta
		In this picture, Russian-born writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn receives an honorary degree at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1978.
		Solzhenitsyn spent many years in prison and exile within the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for anti-Stalinist and anti-Soviet statements and was deported from the USSR in 1974.
		In his novels and short stories, Solzhenitsyn exposed the brutal realities of the Soviet prison system and life in the USSR during and after the rule of Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461526988/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn.html (81 words)

	Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Solzhenitsyn grew up in Rostov-na-Donu, where he studied mathematics at Rostov State Univ. During World War II he served in the Red Army, rising to the rank of artillery captain, and was decorated for bravery.
		In 1973, fearing that he might soon be imprisoned again, Solzhenitsyn authorized foreign publication of The Gulag Archipelago, a vast work that he had completed in 1968 documenting, with personal interviews and reminiscences, the operation of the oppressive Soviet system (see Gulag) from 1918 to 1956.
		Solzhenitsyn ultimately settled in the United States, living in rural Vermont, and in 1980 The Oak and the Calf and The Mortal Danger were published.
	www.bartleby.com /65/so/Solzheni.html (670 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
		Open conflict erupted with Solzhenitsyn's May 1967 letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers, in which he demanded the abolition of censorship, the "rehabilitation" of many writers killed during the purges, and the restoration of his personal papers, confiscated by the KGB (secret police) in 1965.
		In the United States, Solzhenitsyn did not always find a sympathetic audience for his ideas, which were revealed in a series of public addresses and stemmed from his conviction that Soviet Communism was America's perpetual enemy and the source of great suffering in Russia.
		Solzhenitsyn faced prison and the threat of a mean death with immense moral courage.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/solzheni.htm (988 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Biography and Summary
		Alexander Solzhenitsyn, descended from a family of Cossack intellectuals, was born in Koslov...
		The epitome of a socially involved writer, one-time dissident Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, became a symbol of Soviet intolerance during the cold war, being forced to leave his native Russia because of his...
		Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn(Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын; born in Kislovodsk, Russia, on December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian.
	www.bookrags.com /Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn (277 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ``Red Wheel'' cycle, in which ``November 1916'' is the second installment (``August 1914'' was the first), is shaped by an even more radically negative stance, in this case directed against the standard Soviet account of the events leading up to the Russian Revolution.
		Solzhenitsyn's solution was to juxtapose the unresolved political and social tensions of the time with the equally inconclusive and oppressive marital crises and painful amorous entanglements that consitute a major part of the fictional parts of the novel.
		For Solzhenitsyn has allowed him to be the witness of attitudes and events that are contributing to Russia's ominous approach to the precipice of revolution.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/aleksandr_solzhenitsyn.htm (1037 words)

	FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Solzhenitsyn is a liberal in the sense that he is acutely aware of the myriad moral and cultural prerequisites of human liberty.
		Solzhenitsyn takes aim at reactionaries who ignore the inexorability of human “progress,” at revolutionaries who take nihilistic delight in destroying the existing order, and at “false liberals” who refuse to explore prudently the necessarily difficult relations between order and liberty, progress and tradition.
		Solzhenitsyn is, in truth, a conservative liberal who wants to temper the one-sided modern preoccupation with individual freedom with a salutary reminder of the moral ends that ought to inform responsible human choice.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0408/opinion/mahoney.htm (2060 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
		Solzhenitsyn was born one year after the Russian Revolution.
		Solzhenitsyn reached adulthood during the years that Joseph Stalin's "purges" killed tens of thousands of people.
		Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 and was exiled in 1974.
	demo.lutherproductions.com /historytutor/basic/modern/people/solzhenitsyn.htm (170 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk in the northern Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas.
		Solzhenitsyn's double degree in mathematics and physics saved him from hard physical labour during these years, although in 1950 he was taken to a new kind of camp, for political prisoners only, where he worked as a manual labourer.
		Solzhenitsyn was exiled to the South Kazakhstan village of Kok-Terek (1953-56), where he worked as mathematics and physics teacher, and wrote in secret.
	www.litweb.net /biography/358/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn.html (1774 words)

	Dvesti let vmeste (1795-1995), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
		The most important of Solzhenitsyn's innovations is the claim that police protocols and other official government documents constitute the only reliable primary source of historical evidence.
		The official V. Komissarov, who printed anti-Semitic fliers in the police department (Hosking rightly notes that Solzhenitsyn is wrong to present him as an accidental maverick), was not punished for his activities, indeed he had a very successful career, being promoted from captain to major-general of the gendarme corps.
		The newly opened Soviet archives have shown that the number of GULAG prisoners in the 1930s was not in the tens of millions, but consisted of about 2 million people, that is, it was roughly equal to the size of the prison population in the U.S. today.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~slavic/review/solzhenitsyn.html (1376 words)

	December 11 Birthdays: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn — Infoplease.com
		Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers and prohibited from living in Moscow.
		In Feb., 1974 Solzhenitsyn was arrested, formally accused of treason, stripped of his citizenship, and forcibly deported to the West.
		Solzhenitsyn ultimately settled in the United States and in 1980 The Oak and the Calf and The Mortal Danger were published.
	www.infoplease.com /birthday?month=Dec&day=11 (552 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Relationships
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn frequently withdraws from contact with the world, and needs a healing, peaceful environment in order to blossom and come out of his.
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is not especially sentimental and his love partner may feel that he is too casual and not serious or romantic enough.
		Aleksandr is attracted to foreigners, exotic places, traveling, and to people who can expand his horizons, teach him something, or show Solzhenitsyn places and worlds he has never experienced before.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn.asp (709 words)

	Alexander Solzhenitsyn
		During the Second World War Solzhenitsyn joined the Red Army and rose to the rank of artillery captain and was decorated for bravery.
		Solzhenitsyn was found guilty and sent to a Soviet Labour Camp in Kazakhstan.
		In 1969 Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and deported from Moscow.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSsolzhenitsyn.htm (939 words)

	IUB Libraries: Research Guide to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Solzhenitsyn was an important voice in world politics as well as world literature, and the articles contained within this database help the user to understand Solzhenitsyn's political activities and views.
		While this Russian-English glossary is dedicated specifically to Solzhenitsyn's particular use of the Russian words, it is placed among the general resources as a nod towards Solzhenitsyn's own advocacy of "cautious lexical expansion" to combat what he saw as the "impoverishment" of the Russian language.
		Solzhenitsyn dedicates chapters to a vast array of characters, ranging from lowly prisoners and their civilian wives to mid-level bureaucrats and Stalin himself, painting a sweeping portrait of Soviet society and politics.
	www.libraries.iub.edu /index.php?pageId=3995 (2175 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize Winner, Solzhenitsyn at MindPleasures.com
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet writer and dissident whose works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and The Gulag Archipelago, exposed the brutality of the Soviet labor camp system.
		Solzhenitsyn is described by many a mind as a literary genius whose extraordinary talent matches that of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Aleksandr Pushkin and Gorky.
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was deported to West Germany (now part of the united Federal Republic of Germany) and deprived of his Soviet citizenship in February 1974.
	www.mindpleasures.com /Alsolz/alsolz.shtml (444 words)

	Intercollegiate Studies Institute - ISI Books - The Solzhenitsyn Reader
		The Solzhenitsyn Reader reveals a writer of genius, an intransigent opponent of ideological tyranny and moral relativism, and a thinker and moral witness who is acutely sensitive to the great drama of good and evil that takes place within every human soul.
		"Solzhenitsyn is revealed as a man whose deep humanity was forged under the pressure of imprisonment and police harassment.
		Solzhenitsyn may be as austere as a monk, as stern as a prophet, as astute as a sage, as indefatigable as an athlete, and as mighty as a warrior, but his soul is that of a poet.
	www.isi.org /books/bookdetail.aspx?id=46543681-fa28-46b9-92dd-3f99181d3ffd (1226 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 An Experiment in ...
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of the most significant authors of the twentieth century, if not of all time.
		This huge book, which Solzhenitsyn produced surreptitiously while under the watchful eye of his jailors, details the history of the Soviet Gulag (prison) system which was responsible for more deaths than Adolph Hitler ever dreamed about.
		According to Solzhenitsyn, these men were shot in the head and buried in shallow graves near Ljubjanka prison.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-2FDC-68A3F74-395A2EB8-prod1 (429 words)

	The American Enterprise: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's First Year Back in Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Solzhenitsyn will tell you that the United States is the most generous and most magnanimous country in the world.
		Solzhenitsyn is now widely hailed as "the most admired living Russian" by a Western press that can't quite fathom why.
		Solzhenitsyn has said, "I'm obliged to help Russia with my experience, advice, and influence, not knowing why or what result it will have." In the words of a familiar old book, it is required of stewards that they be faithful.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.16872/article_detail.asp (3496 words)

	The ikon and the latrine bucket: the world of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - analysis of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novels ...
		The young officer was Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, later to become a Nobel prize winner and the most famous of Soviet dissidents and one of the most formidable and implacable opponents of Marxism of the 20th century.
		Understanding of Solzhenitsyn is important because his career illuminates not only the course of 20th century history and the ideologies which have helped to generate historical changes, but also the issues of moral integrity and artistic integrity and artistic decline.
		The notion that Solzhenitsyn's work is on the same level as that of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky is a cliche put about by politically-minded journalists hostile to the USSR, or an over-reaction by intelligent critics astonished by the appearance of worthwhile fiction in Russia after decades of censorship and silence.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1530_v263/ai_14234512 (720 words)

	Aleksandr Podrabinek "Several Objections to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"
		Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn cannot be placed in any of these categories.
		And the assessment by Solzhenitsyn of the folly of the election campaign under the "badly constructed electoral system" is absolutely true.
		At the end of his article in 'Le Monde,' Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes that the entire destructive course of events in Russia during the past ten years occurred because the authorities bunglingly borrowed foreign models and neglected their own Russian experience.
	www.civilsoc.org /resource/podrabn2.htm (1251 words)

	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn \| TIME Europe Magazine \| 60 Years of Heroes
		in 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the labor camps for criticizing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in letters to a friend; 17 years later, he turned his experience into One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first literary work to describe the brutalities of prison under Stalin.
		Solzhenitsyn's books were banned and kgb surveillance intensified.
		It enraged the government and Solzhenitsyn was exiled abroad, which for a Russian writer, he said, amounted to a spiritual death.
	www.time.com /time/europe/hero2006/solzhenitsyn.html (309 words)

	One theory in the life of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn » Saswat Blog
		In presenting alternatives to the Soviet regime, Solzhenitsyn tended to reject Western emphases on democracy and individual freedom and instead favored the formation of a benevolent authoritarian regime that would draw upon the resources of Russia’s traditional Christian values.
		Solzhenitsyn remained blind to the reality out of his desire to overthrow the Communism and replace it with traditional Christian values.
		Solzhenitsyn, unfazed by the divided ideologies, and possibly because of it, authored a fiction “One Day in the Life…”which was widely targeted for the American audience.
	saswat.com /blog/index.php/2005/07/17/one-theory-in-the-life-of-aleksandr-isayevich-solzhenitsyn (1494 words)

	E. L. Easton - Travel
		So we travel under the wing of Solzhenitsyn's metaphor to encompass that chain of camps scattered across the wildernesses of the Soviet Union, and meet the inhabitants.
		The author himself was a zek (prisoner) in the Kolyma camp, "the pole of ferocity".
		Gulag, though, is not merely an account of the lies and injustice on which the Soviet system was founded; it addresses the human condition.
	eleaston.com /solzhenitsyn.html (474 words)

	Jewish Killers Massacre 66 Million in Soviet Gulag
		Solzhenitsyn is the hapless victim whose brutal mental whipping and emotional beating the world knows nothing about.
		Solzhenitsyn himself had been a prisoner of the Gulag for a decade, preventively jailed for nothing more than the fear of the communist overlords that he might someday write something the Kremlin masters might find offensive to the state.
		The brave Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the famous Russian writer who has been called the "Conscience of the 20th Century," served eight long years in the Soviet Gulag prison system.
	www.conspiracyworld.com /web/Articles/soviet_gulag.htm (1689 words)

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