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  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын; born in Kislovodsk, Russia, on December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian.
Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974.
Solzhenitsyn's warnings about the dangers of Communist aggression and the weakening of the moral fiber of the West were generally well received in conservative circles in the West.
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  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Encyclopedia Article @ TheLatestBooks.com (The Latest Books)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born the son of a young widowed mother, Xenia Solzhenitsyna (née Scherbak), whose father had risen, it seems, from humble beginnings, much of a self-made man, and acquired a large estate in the Kuban region by the northern foothills of the Caucasus.
Solzhenitsyn's warnings about the dangers of Communist aggression and the weakening of the moral fiber of the West were generally well received in conservative circles in the West, and fit very well with the toughening-up of foreign policy under Reagan.
Solzhenitsyn considered it far fetched to blame the catastrophes of the 20th century on one 16th century and one 18th century tsar, when there were many other examples of violence that could have inspired the Bolshevik in other countries earlier in time, especially mentioning similarities with the Jacobins of the Reign of Terror of France.
www.thelatestbooks.com /encyclopedia/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn   (2984 words)

  
 Biography of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn's double degree in mathematics and physics saved him mostly 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 laborer.
Solzhenitsyn was exiled to South Kazakhstan village of Kok-Terek (1953-56), where he worked as mathematics and physics teacher, and wrote in secret.
Solzhenitsyn's message is clear - the only salvation is to abandon materialist world view and return to the virtues of Holy Russia - but is has not led to concrete consequences.
www.ukprofind.com /solzhenitsyn   (1695 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Alexandr
A name given by the Russian neuropsychologist Alexandr Romanovich Luria (1902–77) to a variant of non-fluent aphasia (see under aphasia) characterized by almost total failure to initiate speech, and responses to questions that are sparse and laconic and given only after...
Alexandr Gurin of Kazakhstan falls during his first jump in the...
General Alexandr Lebed, with his wife Inna, after a press conference at the Grand Hotel, Feb 1997.
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 Amazon.ca: Solzhenitsyn: Books: Joseph Pearce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile is a fascinating look at one of the most unusual and influential writers of the late 20th Century.
Alexandr I solzhenitsyn deserves a full,massive critical biography covering all of his life{his return to Russia has been bittersweet,his tv show was canceled for LACK OF INTEREST.Amazing how short peoples memories are!} This is one small step in the process.
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul In Exile is a new biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn portraying a complex man of integrity and faith, and whose anti-materialist stance and call for a "moral revolution" are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago.
www.amazon.ca /Solzhenitsyn-Joseph-Pearce/dp/0002740419   (1256 words)

  
 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
During these years, Solzhenitsyn's double degree in mathematics and physics saved him mostly from hard physical labour, although in 1950 he was taken to a new kind of camp, created for political prisoners only, where he worked as a manual laborer.
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.
In January 2003 Solzhenitsyn was hospitalized with high blood pressure.
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 Guardian | Comrades fall out in Russia's battle of the dissidents
Solzhenitsyn was persecuted by the state for his writings, which increased his international reputation.
Solzhenitsyn, born to a Cossack family in 1918, served in the war but was thrown into jail in 1945 when the KGB intercepted a letter to a friend in which he criticised Stalin.
Solzhenitsyn is a rude man. He doesn't support any criticism and affirms in his works that he knows the answer.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4455986-103681,00.html   (1283 words)

  
 Vermont Recluse Alexandr Solzhenitsyn :: Literature :: Culture & Arts :: Russia-InfoCentre
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is widely acknowledged as a notable Russian man of letters, known all over the world as a Nobel Prize winner and the author of The Gulag Archipelago, “an attempt of research of the totalitarian governmental system of annihilating people in the USSR”.
Solzhenitsyn Alexandr Isayevich was born on December 11, 1918 in the town of Kislovodsk.
After four years of confinement Solzhenitsyn was sent to a camp for political prisoners in Kazakhstan where he had to work as a miner, a mason, and a caster.
www.russia-ic.com /culture_art/literature/308   (952 words)

  
 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn — FactMonster.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.
In Feb., 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, formally accused of treason, stripped of his citizenship, and forcibly deported to the West.
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 artdiamondblog.com: Solzhenitsyn Endures: The Return of "The First Circle"
But as Solzhenitsyn works his way up the bureaucracy, each bureaucrat has a plausible motive for his part in evil; one motive, for example, is the protection of the bureaucrat's family.
It is surprise enough that the man is Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the once-exiled writer, Nobel Prize winner and, of late, octogenarian scold.
Solzhenitsyn has been called the conscience of the nation, but his reputation has risen and fallen as tumultuously as Russia itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
www.artdiamondblog.com /archives/2006/02/solzhenitsyn_en.html   (404 words)

  
 The Legacy Project - Literary Detail
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk Russia and attended the University of Rostov-na-Donu, graduating in mathematics.
Solzhenitsyn fought in the Second World War, and was arrested in 1945 for writing a letter criticizing Joseph Stalin.
In 1970, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he declined to go to Stockholm to receive his prize because he was worried he would not be readmitted to the Soviet Union.
www.legacy-project.org /index.php?page=lit_detail&litID=27   (762 words)

  
 IUB Libraries: Research Guide to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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)

  
 Semicolon
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn on the Press: Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn on Good and Evil: If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
Alexandr Solzhenitsy on Humanism: That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.
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 Solzhenitsyn in the Moscow Times (FaceRight)
A recent interview in the Moscow News Alexandr Solshenitsyn is a fascinating case in point.
Unfortunately, Solzhenitsyn shows himself in the interview as someone still living in the narrowly nationalistic world of the 20th century, in which the peoples of the West exhausted themselves in a series of internecine wars which are mainly responsible for our current predicament.
Solzhenitsyn: Unfortunately, the global political process is not moving in the direction that you have just outlined.
www.faceright.com /2006/05/solzhenitsyn_in_the_moscow_tim.html   (1066 words)

  
 Semicolon
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn on the Press: Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn on Good and Evil: If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
Alexandr Solzhenitsy on Humanism: That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.
www.semicolonblog.com /?p=1057   (250 words)

  
 Book Review: Invisible Allies
Many were later rewarded monetarily, as Solzhenitsyn directed funds from his 1970 Nobel Prize in literature to help his invisible allies, but no one apparently expected tangible payment for their efforts.
Solzhenitsyn also devotes a fair amount of attention to foreigners who aided his causes, in a specific chapter as well as elsewhere.
The ingenuity and perseverance demonstrated by Solzhenitsyn and his conspirators will need to be matched—probably exceeded—if we are to route around Real ID, NAIS, and other obstacles in the paths of free beings.
www.endervidualism.com /salon/books/solzhenitsyn.htm   (910 words)

  
 The Official Ministry of John G. Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Reproduced in their entirety are early poems, early and late short stories, early and late "miniatures" (or prose poems), and many of Solzhenitsyn’s famous—and not-so-famous—essays and speeches.
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.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is an intersting figure,a moral giant,Shakespearean in his essence, equalled only by John PaulII and Nelson mandela among recent historical personage.
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 14.1. Quotable Quotes - One Word of Truth - Alexander Solzhenitsyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 for his personal experience narrative that exposed the Gulag camps in "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich".
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature, for his novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1962).
Solzhenitsyn went on to publish three volumes of "The Gulag Archipelago" (1970) about his own experiences and stories of 277 prisoners that he heard in prison.
www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/ai141_folder/141_articles/141_quotes_solzhenitsyn.html   (455 words)

  
 BrothersJudd.com - Review of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : An Experiment in Literary ...
Solzhenitsyn was banished from the Soviet Union on February 13, 1974, just two months after portions of this work began appearing in print in the West, after the KGB had obtained a draft copy.
Solzhenitsyn's life was only spared because he was already a Nobel Laureate by then, having won the prize in 1970, though he was forbidden to travel outside the country at that time to accept it.
Solzhenitsyn began the process of yanking this prop out from under them, of demonstrating that the system was rotten to its evil core, that no past actions were justified and no just future was possible.
www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/600   (1960 words)

  
 Solzhenitsyn at Harvard
Hence Solzhenitsyn emerges as the spokesman of a common (and not unilaterally "Western" or "Russian Orthodox") Christian position which is reminiscent of and entirely compatible with the "mere Christianity" of C.S. Lewis.
This, of course, was what Solzhenitsyn doubtless felt himself called to accomplish— and this is what academic critiques of his address, however well balanced and fair, must perhaps inevitably obscure.
Solzhenitsyn did not speak or mean to speak as an academic, but as a Christian prophet.
www.creationism.org /csshs/v05n1p24.htm   (469 words)

  
 Hampden-Sydney College | Western Cultures Program Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought, The University Press of Virginia, 1990.
Interview: "Solzhenitsyn and the Spiritual Dimensions of Freedom," The Mars Hill Tapes: An audio magazine of contemporary culture and Christian conviction, (September 1993).
"Solzhenitsyn and the Death of Communism," Averett College, Danville, Virginia, 1993.
www.hsc.edu /academics/wcprogram/faculty/pontuso.html   (2465 words)

  
 CSSHS Archives - v01n1p13.htm
By his faith Solzhenitsyn is to Soviet Russia, and to the entire twentieth century world, a voice crying in the wilderness of materialism, a candle in the wind of humanist atheism.
Solzhenitsyn was "criticized for the very title of the story, which is said to deal not with a medical case but with some kind of symbol."19 He replied with a defense of his work as a portrayal of realistic truth; I do not believe that it is the task of literature to conceal the
We are indebted to Solzhenitsyn for his courage in the face of possible torture and death.
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 book list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Germany, but spent many years of his life in Russian prison camps.
Solzhenitsyn wone the Noble Prize in 1970 for his literary works.
Ken Kesey was a member of the counter culture in the early sixties, kind of a transition between the beatnicks and the hippies.
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 The Gulag Archipelago, by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The horrors of the communist state had been documented before, but never with the verve and authority of a great author of the stature of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
Solzhenitsyn told his own story and the story of 256 others who were thrust into the camps, merely because they differed in perspective from the government.
Many blamed the camps on Stalin and his thuggish minions (such as Beria), but Solzhenitsyn showed that the roots of the prison system found their way straight to the worshipped Lenin, and indeed, such repressive measures are the hallmark of all communist systems.
www.conservativemonitor.com /top-ten/gulag-archipelago.shtml   (428 words)

  
 Herescope: The Transitional Worldview
But as he thought back on his stint as a military officer he realized that “my power soon convinced me that I was a superior human being.” He wrote: “Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.” Leadership went to his head, even after the initial humiliating experiences of becoming a prisoner.
Solzhenitsyn pondered the downhill slide into evil of several acquaintances.
Solzhenitsyn then disclosed a horrible episode in which camp prisoners were fed to zoo animals.
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 Abolishing Socialism with Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn explained all of this, and rightly decried the Gaidar program as "brainless." It was "deceptive privatization," not the creation of real private property.
Even the property "vouchers" ("a ridiculous word," Solzhenitsyn said) were a fraud, because they only amounted to 1/300th of one percent of the nation's publicly owned capital stock.
Solzhenitsyn suggests throwing out socialism in "constructive, thought-through system of actions linked one to another." He also cautioned against listening to the socialists in the West, who led Russia into its current statist miasma.
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 The Economics of the GULAG
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn gives the following example in his book, The GULAG Archipelago, of how insanely socialism and the decisions of the central authorities in the Soviet Union worked out in practice.
The GULAG Archipelago was the chain of prison camps.
Solzhenitsyn commented that that was the way the supposedly rational system of socialism always worked.
www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/gulag.htm   (637 words)

  
 Daniel Webster College :: Library :: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scope: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn immigrated to the United States in 1976.
While serving as a Commander in the Soviet Army he was convicted of anti-Soviet actions and spent 1945 to 1953 in labor camps and working on military communications research.
Books of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s works are listed in out on- line catalog under “Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr,” and under individual titles, i.
www.dwc.edu /Library/solzhenitsyn.shtml   (169 words)

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