Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn



Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

b.Rostov, Russia 1918

- mathematics at Rostov State University

- Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History.

- World War II, commander of artillery, twice decorated.

February 1945 arrested

1945-53 eight-year term in a labour camp,.

1953 internal exile for life in Kazahkstan

1954 Treated for cancer in Tashkent

1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich published in Noviy Mir

1968 First Circle; Cancer Ward

Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970

1973-78 Gulag Archipelago

February 13, 1974, deported from USSR

- moved to Vermont in 1976.

- historical novel about Revolution of 1917, The Red Wheel

1990 Soviet citizenship restored

1994 returned to Russia.

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